From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 22 19: 3:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FAB37B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:03:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id fAN33RR72623; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:03:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: matt@gsicomp.on.ca ("Matthew Emmerton") Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange problem with PPP/Netgraph (PPPoE) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:03:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1uervtss6vs7jltu79pos19vmjroiagk17@4ax.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Nov 2001 14:36:37 +0000 (UTC), in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >Thanks for all who replied to this thread, indicating that a bad cable = was >likely the culprit. > >In this case, changing the cable didn't help, but commenting out the >"ifconfig_rl0=3D'up'" line in /etc/rc.conf fixed the problem. > >Any ideas on why doing an 'ifconfig rl0 up' before starting PPP (using = set >device PPPoE:rl0) would cause this problem? (These machines are running >4.3-REL-p20) Not sure why. But, I have noticed that many of the realtek cards do not detect their speed / media type properly. On my DSL connection, I need = to do ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP. Try in your /etc/rc.conf instead of = just ifconfig_rl0=3D'up' try ifconfig_rl0=3D'media 10baseT/UTP up' Without doing this, ifconfig rl0 shows a media type of none and the connection does not function properly. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message