From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 20 17:52:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin10.bigpond.com (juicer35.bigpond.com [139.134.6.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB98F37B423 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dyoung6@bigpond.net.au) Received: from oracle ([139.134.4.57]) by mailin10.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GC4AND00.6EX; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:57:13 +1000 Received: from CPE-61-9-142-50.vic.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.142.50]) by mail2.bigpond.com (Claudes-Attentive-MailRouter V2.9c 3/5373032); 21 Apr 2001 10:52:31 Message-ID: <001301c0c9fd$47740ab0$328e093d@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Gerry Freymann" , References: Subject: Re: PPPoE causes a Kernel Panic Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:52:02 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been trying to figure out PPPoE too .... trying both FreeBSD & OpenBSD & its starting to look like the native pppoe in OpenBSD might just be easier to configure .... I'm not certain whats up with netgraph but I think it may need a bit more work before its totally reliable. OpenBSD doesn't use it (possibly a security related issue) & the mailing list archives have a heap of postings about netgraph woes ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Freymann" To: Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 10:38 AM Subject: PPPoE causes a Kernel Panic > I'm trying to do so much with this FreeBSD box! I think it's pretty > amazing and slightly frustrating at the same time. > > I'm running a dual pentium pro 200 motherboard. 128M of ram. etc. > > I have everything running lovely.. xwindows, gnome, sawfish, sound, > cd-rom, etc. I'm pleased! > > My goal is to have my freebsd box out front... the firewall/nat/internet > server.. > > Using this as my basis: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html > > I'm trying to get PPPoE to work. FreeBSD 4.3RC. (just cvsup'd yesterday!) > > Seems pretty easy if you read that page... > > So I add NETGRAPH to the kernel, make a new kernal, reboot... > > set up the ppp.conf file... > > but when I load ppp, the kernel panics! You can't even read what's on the > screen, nothing is logged... > > So I'm looking at it, and "optionally" it says you can add > options NETGRAPH_PPPOE > > so now i'm compiling a kernel with both > > options NETGRAPH > options NETGRAPH_PPPOE > > I use sympatico (canada) high speed edition. We're given Dynamic IP #'s. > > The handbook instructions for making the FreeBSD box just do PPPoE look > simple. > > I figure, hey, if I can get it to do that, then later I can add IPFW, NAT, > etc. but I can't even get it to do PPPoE yet. > > Any suggestions? > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Gerry Freymann > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message