From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 15:52:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48A7C16A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:52:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A8A343D2D for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:52:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from [212.227.126.209] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1Bo2Le-0001YR-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:52:38 +0200 Received: from [217.227.150.246] (helo=donor.laier.local) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1Bo2Le-0005bn-00 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:52:38 +0200 From: Max Laier To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:50:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_IPTABO5tf/GRRNi"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407231750.32302.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:61c499deaeeba3ba5be80f48ecc83056 Subject: Re: xl(4) autonegotiation trouble - ng_pppoe related? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:52:40 -0000 --Boundary-02=_IPTABO5tf/GRRNi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 23 July 2004 17:30, Matthias Andree wrote: > Hi, > > as of a few weeks ago, there are troubles connecting to T-DSL, the > largest ADSL provider in Germany, at least with xl(4) and first "T-DSL" > generation Siemens ADSL modems. > > I've chased this and found some results that I've added to kern/69133. > > The problem is that outgoing PPPoE packets (user-space ppp) don't seem > to appear on the wire whenever the peer does not offer auto-negotiation > but the xl interface is set to "media auto" (default). Switching off > autonegotiation (ifconfig xl1 media 10baseT/UTP) makes the packets go > out to the wire. Well, if your DSL-modem does not do autonegotiation you have to set the med= ia=20 type manually. It's quite obvious that you can't do pppoEthernet w/o a=20 working ethernet link. Anyhow, from reading the (long) PR audit trail it=20 seems that some of the newer xl(4) changes broke autonegotiation. Would be= =20 very helpful if you could narrow it down somemore i.e. give a last working= =20 version. > This may be some incompatibility between xl and ng_pppoe, as xl with > rp-pppoe (from ports) works, and vr with ng_pppoe works, too. > > More details are given in: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/69133 > > Any insight? =2D-=20 /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News --Boundary-02=_IPTABO5tf/GRRNi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBATPIXyyEoT62BG0RApT3AJ9k6FUwUfNAOr9no9wS9c1cLR1nAgCfT7GP gYQraPerNDvid6B/4e7Sgfc= =lHJ3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_IPTABO5tf/GRRNi--