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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:23:59 -0500
From:      Jonathan Pennington <john@coastalgeology.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   PPPoE (& others) solved
Message-ID:  <20001213182359.A3255@coastalgeology.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A37F9D5.60185563@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:36:05PM -0800
References:  <5.0.2.1.2.20001213113345.01c9c580@intranet.com.mx> <3A37F9D5.60185563@urx.com>

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Many thanks all, PPPoE has been up since about an hour after that last
post. Many replies, one hit it. Asked if ed1 was "up"... "of course
it's up," I thought, "I'm not an idiot!" Later, just to
make sure, I checked... then, as a what-the-hell, I brought it up with
the -arp switch and BAM, suddenly I'm at 1.2M/s. I guess the ARP was
causing a problem, but don't understand why it would. 

Since then (2 days?), I've been fighting with fetchmail, qmail,
procmail, natd and ipfw... after archive searches, I consistantly
found stupid config errors that an idiot would make (see above), for
instance, a day trying to figure out why my email wasn't being
transferred to qmail on port 25 by fetchmail, all with working configs
from my Slackware disk... all except /var/qmail/users :-)

One of the main reasons I've used UNIX-like systems for so long is
that, chances are, if the computer doesn't work, it's my fault. (quite
different from the Windows world. I have little honest experience
there, but the rule seems almost the opposite) I'll keep checking the
archives for my problems, and replying with what little I know
here. Thanks.

I now have no need to reboot into Slackware anymore, I have
officially become a minion of the Daemon. Not that Slackware is a bad
thing, mind you, I consider it the best of Linux... just that FreeBSD
is- 

-J 
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