adsl/pppoe no longer connecting on 5.1

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Wed Jun 11 19:42:10 PDT 2003


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:04, Andrew Lankford wrote:
> I'm having trouble with the latest build of -CURRENT as well.  Same
> problem, slightly different symptoms:
>
> Portions of my config file:
> disable ipv6
> deny pap
>
> set device PPPoE:xl0
>
> ...produce this in the log (repeatedly):
>
>  Jun 11 22:00:14 bogushost2 ppp[222]: Warning:  Unexpected node type
> ``socket'' (wanted ``ether'') Jun 11 22:00:14 bogushost2 ppp[222]: Warning:
> deflink: PPPoE: unknown host Jun 11 22:00:14 bogushost2 ppp[222]: Warning:
> deflink: PPPoE: unknown host Jun 11 22:00:14 bogushost2 ppp[222]: Warning:
> deflink: Device (PPPoE:xl0) must egin with a '/', a '!' or contain at least
> one ':' Jun 11 22:00:14 bogushost2 ppp[222]: Phase: deflink: Enter pause
> (2) for redialing.
>
> Bloody irritating.

Are all of the lines except labels prefixed with a space?

eg.

default:
 set openmode active

foo:
 set device PPPoE:xl0
 set authname xyz
 set authkey abc

If you don't have the spaces I thnk the parser chokes on the : for PPPoE..

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