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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 09:23:00 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: [Fwd: PPPoE Problems] 
Message-ID:  <200001280923.JAA01067@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Dany Cayouette <danyc@playground.net>  of "Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:19:52 EST." <389126F7.F9A3FBF9@playground.net> 

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> Greetings,
>   I recently got my hands on an old DEC pentium 133 PC.  I just got
> FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE installed.  I am interested in getting PPPoE
> running.  I recompile a kernel with all the NETGRAPH options.  The first
> problem I noticed is a 50% success rate on getting a successful
> connection.  I start my session with the command "ppp -dedicated".  I
> stop the session with "kill <PPP PID>".  When the process terminates,
> I get the following 2 messages:

-dedicated isn't a good option for PPPoE as it attempts to keep the 
device open all the time.  Use -ddial instead if you want a 24/7 
connection.

-dedicated is intended for things like dedicated serial links or 
(soon thanks to hm) dedicated isdn on-demand links.

> /var/log/messages:
> Jan 12 16:48:19 freebsd ppp[265]: tun0: Warning: deflink: Oops: Got 8
> bytes but 4 byte payload
> Jan 12 16:48:20 freebsd ppp[265]: tun0: Warning: deflink: Oops: Got 8
> bytes but 4 byte payload

You can probably ignore these, but they indicate that there may be a 
problem with the way the PPPoE module is trimming the packets - looks 
like it might be chopping a bit too much off the end.  If you enable 
physical logging, it may be apparent whether the packet is truncated 
or is meant to be 4 bytes.

[.....]
> Regards,
> Dany Cayouette

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