xl(4) autonegotiation trouble - ng_pppoe related?

[Matthias Andree]

"Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net> writes:

> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:
>
>> > It's quite obvious that you can't do pppoEthernet w/o a working
>> > ethernet link.
>>
>> The link IS working: if I use rp-pppoe, a user-space PPPoE driver, it
>> works on the same interface where ppp (with ng_pppoe) fails.
>
> can you please check if rp-pppoe does put the interface into promisc
> mode ?

I have checked, zero hints to promiscuous mode:
ifconfig has no "PROMISC" tag,
nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages.

> and - do you have s.th. like
> 	ifconfig_xl1="up"
> in your /etc/rc.conf ? Else I think it won't work with ppp/ng_pppoe

Yes, I do. ppp/ng_pppoe has worked a few weeks ago and I hadn't changed
my configuration for months.

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