pppoe configuration

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 01:11:37AM -0200, theblues gnr wrote:
> Hi everyone. I just installed the 20051026 snapshot, and got the basic 
> system running. Now I'm trying to set up PPPoE, following the FreeBSD 
> Handbook:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html
> 
> I created the configuration file (/etc/ppp/ppp.conf) from the handbook and 
> ran ppp -ddial provider. The connection appears to be up, but pinging an 
> internet server returns "No route to host".
> 
> I tried installing FreeBSD 6.0rc1, and used the same ppp.conf. It works as 
> expected there. I guess I need some extra steps to set up Debian 
> GNU/kFreeBSD. Any pointers?

Perhaps ppp is unable to update the routing table.  Please try the following:
Edit /sbin/route (it's a script) and put a "echo $0 $@" at the beginning.  Then
run ppp again and see what parameters is passing to route (if any).

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Robert Millan