PPPOE concentrator troubleshooting
Nikola Stojanoski
nikola at vlaeonline.com
Sun Aug 12 16:52:58 UTC 2007
Hi,
i've never used mpd but i've done some research on it. i'm attaching a
file in which you have a generator for mpd.conf for pppoe connections.
also i've noticed you have /36 for subnet?
i hope this will help you.
Regards
Jay Banks wrote:
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>> Hi Jay
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>> Have a gander at
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>> http://www.hpi.net/whitepapers/warta/
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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> I've actually seen that before, and it would be great, except that I
> used mpd and not pppoed. And the reason I did that was because mpd was
> supposed to be a lot faster and require less resources because it runs
> partially in userland and partially in kernal mode. Unfortunately, it
> looks like only three or four people actually use mpd (and two of
> those people live in Russia and don't know english). Also, tons of
> people use PPPoE as a client, so when you try and search for info, you
> pull up info on how to configure a client, not a server.
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> I noticed in this guy's diagrams he has two nic cards. I also ran into
> a Linux "how to" that said two NIC cards were required, one with no IP
> address and one with an IP address.
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> Anyone know if it can be configured with one NIC card?
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> Also, does anyone know what "set ipcp ranges" actually does. It looks
> like this in mpd.conf:
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> set ipcp ranges 64.238.118.143/36 64.238.118.145/36
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> Sure would be nice if the manual documented stuff like that... I don't
> know, maybe it is in there somewhere and I just can't find it??? It's
> hard to pms too much when it's free, but darn I would pay money for
> some *good* documentaion or for someone to send me all of their config
> files from a working PPPoE server....how does $20.00 sound...anyone? :-)
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> Thanks,
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> Jay
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