Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:34:43 +0100 From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" <h.skuhra@gmail.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp(8) PPPoE fails when ifname contains "." Message-ID: <86twmpada4.wl-h.skuhra@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CCGpCw9H6BftTrNuA6ahLoe%2BWbJJudyRUv90_5n6sYvhw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOc73CCGpCw9H6BftTrNuA6ahLoe%2BWbJJudyRUv90_5n6sYvhw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:29:09 +0100, Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I was recently trying to set up PPPoE to my ISP, over my network interface > which is configured with 802.1q VLAN tagging using vlan(4). > > I utilised the vlans_<interface>=<tag> feature described in rc.conf(5), > which creates a cloned interface named <interface>.<tag>. > > In /etc/ppp.conf I used the syntax PPPoE:<interface>.<tag> and this exposed > an interesting issue - ppp(8) would not set up the PPPoE interface > correctly when the interface contains a period. > > When I manually created the vlan clone interface with a name not containing > a period, ppp(8) worked fine. > > Has anyone seen this before? A quick review of the ppp(8) code, and I am > struggling to see the exact point where this syntax problem is. Like this: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-July/051096.html -- Herbert
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