On 9/9/07, Omkar Raut wrote: > > The strange thing is that although this utility prompts for username > > and password, it doesn't give an option to select the > > Access-Concentrator and Service-Provider name. (The list of > > service-providers and access-concentrators can be obtained using > > pppoe-discovery). > > Use rp-pppoe. I compiled it from source, but you can get its deb > package. Configure it using pppoe-setup. You can specify which access > concentrator to use by editing file /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf .The two > fields you will need to change are ACNAME and SERICENAME > Then connect using ppppoe-start command. > > -omkar.
Thanks, it worked! Here's the details TWIMC: I did not need of installing rp-pppoe from source, debian includes the package "pppoe" which is different from the package "pppoeconf". When I ran pppoe-setup, I got: # pppoe-setup Welcome to the Roaring Penguin PPPoE client setup. First, I will run some checks on your system to make sure the PPPoE client is installed properly... Oh, dear, I don't see the file '/etc/ppp/pppoe.conf' anywhere. Please re-install the PPPoE client. Reinstalling pppoe didn't work, so I downloaded the rp-pppoe tarball from www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/ extracted it and copied the pppoe.conf file to /etc/ppp pppoe-setup now worked fine. I tried running pppoe-start without adding the service-name & access-provider to pppoe.conf. I started giving authentication errors, but after a few attempts it did connect. Now, I added the service-name & access-provider details to pppoe.conf and reconnected, it worked on the first attempt. Also, I had to remove the default gateway ip address from my eth0 configuration, so that the pppoe connection would be set as the default gateway. -- Regards OSRIC XAVIER FERNANDES Registered Linux User #442219 Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
