Anybody has successful experience with Slackware 10.2 with rp-pppoe 3.5 on Sympatico?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:27:24AM -0500, frankpeng-VsqqI1RANlHk1uMJSBkQmQ at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi,guys!
>  
> I compiled my slacware 10.2 kernel and installed rp-pppoe 3.5. After I pppoe-start, it says Connected!
> But it screwed up the TCP-IP and the routing stuff, and it won;t ping the name server 204.101.251.1, either. I cannot ping 127.0.0.1 and other local hosts. If I do not pppoe-start, I can ping localhost and other host.

If you can't ping 127.0.0.1, you better fix your network setup first.
Until that works, nothing will work right.

> ifconfig is ok, ppp0,lo, eth0 and eth1 showing up there.
> When I route
> it takes a long time to show up
> 69.x.y.z(the ppp0's ip) *  255.255.255.0   UH ...
> localnet                                               U
> localloop                                              U
> default                                                U

What does 'route -n' show?

> There is no UG.

pppd should add the gateway if you have defaultroute option enabled in
the ppp config.

> I never understood route table completely. 
> The rp-pppoe documents says, it could be my old kernel. This is not the case, my kernel is 2.4.31. 
> The documents says feed the eth1 a fake it such as 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0. I did that. It did not work.
> I remember, the eth1 could be 0.0.0.0 and mask 255.255.255.0

The interface you run pppoe on should not have any ip configuration at
all.

> I lived with Slackware and rp-ppp for many years and I never got problem. Probally I should get an older rp-pppoe?
>  
> My kernel is nothing new. I am just so greedy to utilize the memory. I has 1G memory and the kernel show only 900M. So I configured the kernel to memory 4G and HIGHMEM=y. After I got the new kernel I have 1G memory. 

Yeah linux has always been limited to 900M ram on i386 if you didn't
enable the highmem option.

> I cannot remember how I got it work before. Probally it was Slackware 10.0. Now it is 10.2.
>  
> The rp-pppoe guy said, he made the rp-ppppoe on FreeBSD. That is the closest to Slackware.

In configuration style they are close.  Nothing else is.  For everything
else slackware is just like every other linux distribution.

> I will look for older rp-pppoe and a newer Slackware, if you had a success story on the same environment, please give me a click. Thanks a lot!

I think you just have to sort out your network configuration.

Len Sorensen
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