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My ISP provides PPPoE connection with username, password and service
name and binds my MAC Address. Since I have connected my router to the
WAN, the MAC Address of the router has been bound in their server by
them. Whereas the IP Address and Gateway are set to be automatically
obtained, and DNS addresses are manually given. My Desktop has been
connected to the router and the network is working fine.
However, for the purpose of troubleshooting the network when it goes
down, I need to connect directly to the computer. Therefore, I need to
know how to configure a wired PPPoE connection directly in my computer,
which has only one NIC. The network settings GUI does not allow setting
up one.
Please guide me how to -
i) configure a PPPoE connection
ii) specify the username, password and service name, and
iii) clone my router's MAC address to my desktop
to be able to connect to the internet. The GUI provided in Ubuntu
18.04 Bionic Beaver (which is what I am using) does not provide for
creating a PPPoE connection. The GUI should also allow use of a cloned
MAC address for the PPPoE connection.
After referring to various community posts, I tried the following
command (though I am not quite conversant with Linux commands) :
nmcli connection add con-name "..." type pppoe username ... password ...
service ... parent (iface name of the NIC) autoconnect no ifname "*"
save yes
The pppoe connection gets created but vanishes from the "Settings ->
Network" GUI under "Wired" category after some time and some times gets
listed under "Bluetooth" category (under Network Settings) before
vanishing.
Also, neither the command nor the GUI, allows me to specify a cloned MAC
address to the connection created using the above command.
Please get this issue addressed at the earliest.
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Unable to create a PPPoE connection in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792511
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