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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:03:27 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        matt@gsicomp.on.ca ("Matthew Emmerton")
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange problem with PPP/Netgraph (PPPoE)
Message-ID:  <1uervtss6vs7jltu79pos19vmjroiagk17@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.1006439797.339163959@news.sentex.net>
References:  <SEN.1006439797.339163959@news.sentex.net>

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On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:36:37 +0000 (UTC), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
wrote:

>Thanks for all who replied to this thread, indicating that a bad cable =
was
>likely the culprit.
>
>In this case, changing the cable didn't help, but commenting out the
>"ifconfig_rl0=3D'up'" line in /etc/rc.conf fixed the problem.
>
>Any ideas on why doing an 'ifconfig rl0 up' before starting PPP (using =
set
>device PPPoE:rl0) would cause this problem?  (These machines are running
>4.3-REL-p20)

Not sure why.  But, I have noticed that many of the realtek cards do not
detect their speed / media type properly.  On my DSL connection, I need =
to
do ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP. Try in your /etc/rc.conf instead of =
just
ifconfig_rl0=3D'up'
try
ifconfig_rl0=3D'media 10baseT/UTP up'

Without doing this, ifconfig rl0 shows a media type of none and the
connection does not function properly.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)	=09
Sentex Communications Corp,   	=09
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)

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