PPPoE : FreeBSD pppoed doesn't communicate with Linksys BEFSR41 ver. 2

[Sten Daniel Soersdal]

James Long wrote:

> There are no log entries, presumably because pppoed does not even see
> a PPPoE service request coming from the linksys.  If someone can educate
> me on how to use e.g. tcpdump to capture the PPPoE session setup traffic
> to confirm or refute this, I'm willing to learn.

Try dumping the connection attempts with tcpdump like:
tcpdump -pi fxp1 -w /tmp/mydump.cap -s 1600

Then loading the mydump.cap file in ethereal might prove more useful.
Also i've seen a handful or two of commercial routers that simply do not
set the right fields in the packets. I wouldn't be too quick to blame ppp.

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Sten Daniel Soersdal