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From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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Subject: Re: xl(4) autonegotiation trouble - ng_pppoe related?
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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 ?

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

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