From owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org Thu Jan 7 10:34:47 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B82A65785 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 10:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from h.skuhra@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x232.google.com (mail-wm0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 740EA110E for ; Thu, 7 Jan 2016 10:34:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from h.skuhra@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x232.google.com with SMTP id b14so116049878wmb.1 for ; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:34:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:message-id:from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=H239HDGCw0Ppz08KVOsUdWltdwYNSldC07sf8sx2MJM=; b=MEntQfO9INRCjwLqFTCvPbS/NsCZg4fm1mG98sErwYog+TO2/igEoMDxPMblevpwdP GKyoWLrIUuzZUDXmwPZ7FnvwtpozlBjXyJLLusq/c4FDHlySVBwcluRax1AygynGwgex a4GNVLrUNqtXX4fYaLTBs1XebBkuUW90x7Qdagi9c5f45syBmEE6NOGglQ7Y4VqzE1N1 vonsTHStO0RvQyq7AkCKEWp+ZCtoTopI9W7ubQvXCbj/2wOX9EVpjWuylfFXtV3gOCGG 9mJ78jDMPZ9W7UaK/cg3phIY+SAnVqfuCphylduW/1bw6t++ukF57hrcnrYhOW6lvXiR tB/Q== X-Received: by 10.28.133.141 with SMTP id h135mr15207345wmd.70.1452162885850; Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:34:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from oslo.ath.cx ([2a02:b18:581:10:9402:4c98:7d6c:8518]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id pn6sm100412786wjb.15.2016.01.07.02.34.44 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 07 Jan 2016 02:34:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:34:43 +0100 Message-ID: <86twmpada4.wl-h.skuhra@gmail.com> From: "Herbert J. Skuhra" To: Ben Woods Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp(8) PPPoE fails when ifname contains "." In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/25.0.50 (i386-pc-freebsd10.2) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2016 10:34:47 -0000 On Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:29:09 +0100, Ben Woods wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I was recently trying to set up PPPoE to my ISP, over my network interface > which is configured with 802.1q VLAN tagging using vlan(4). > > I utilised the vlans_= feature described in rc.conf(5), > which creates a cloned interface named .. > > In /etc/ppp.conf I used the syntax PPPoE:. and this exposed > an interesting issue - ppp(8) would not set up the PPPoE interface > correctly when the interface contains a period. > > When I manually created the vlan clone interface with a name not containing > a period, ppp(8) worked fine. > > Has anyone seen this before? A quick review of the ppp(8) code, and I am > struggling to see the exact point where this syntax problem is. Like this: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-July/051096.html -- Herbert