Re: Assistance with kernel pppoe

[Arnaud Bergeron]

On 11/23/06, Andreas Bihlmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 12:24:21PM -0500, Alden Pierre wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>    I'm able to get userland pppoe working, but I'm having a hard time
> getting kernel pppoe to work properly.  Here are my config
> files.  Is there anything I'm doing wrong, I believe my config file
> follows what man 4 pppoe states.
>
> # file /etc/hostname.pppoe0
>
> inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 0.0.0.1 pppoedev xl0 \
>    authproto pap authname 'username' \
                            ^--------^-- NEEDED?
>    authkey 'password' up
             ^--------^---------- NEEDED?
> !/sbin/route add default 0.0.0.1

I did not verify whether it matters, but I do not use `'` in my
hostname.pppoe0.

This ends up getting run by /bin/sh so it is a matter of
interpretation by the shell:

$ echo foo
foo
$ echo 'foo'
foo

And since the command receives the same string there is no problem.
If the username/password are purely alphanumeric it is not needed, but
if they contain special characters for the shell, they should be
between single quotes so that ifconfig gets them right.

> # file /etc/hostname.xl0
> up
>
> Regards,
> Alden

Regards,
ahb

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