From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jun 27 15:21:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from spmx.securepipe.com (spmx.securepipe.com [64.73.37.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20C9637B401 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4804 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 22:12:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO alice.wi.securepipe.com) (64.73.37.245) by spmx.securepipe.com with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 22:12:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 2076 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2002 22:21:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Homer.the-rob.com) (imapzietlow@216.170.184.30) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Jun 2002 22:21:17 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Rob Zietlow To: mike@sentex.net Subject: Re: SOLVED! Native PPPoE broken (4.6-STABLE), RP-PPPoE working?! Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:21:13 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 Cc: net@freebsd.org, rob@the-rob.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200206271721.13301.zietlow@securepipe.com> 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 >Just to close off this issue an feed it to the archives in case anyone =3D >else >runs into this issue, the telco found the article below in the vendor's >knowledge database.=20 >Again to summarize, if you use FreeBSD, PPPoE and your ISP or your ISP's >telco uses an ERX as the PPPoE concentrator, make sure you disable and >prevent VJ header compression as it will not work. Bell Canada has been >slowly deploying these boxes so if you use Sympatico, or your ISP is in >Quebec or Ontario, you will start to run into this issue as the telco =3D >slow >gets rid of their Redback SMSes and replaces them with Unisphere's ERX >boxes.=20 > >The solution I found was to make sure that its also disabled and not >offered in RADIUS either, so you might have to talk to your ISP if they >have it configured, as we did. how exactly do you turn this off? Or even find out if it's enabled? A se= arch=20 on google mostly gives up ISDN cases of this kernel option. one article=20 mentions spppcontrol to turn this off, but when I attempt to use this opt= ion=20 I get the following PITA# spppcontrol tun0 spppcontrol: SIOCGIFGENERIC(SPPPIOGDEFS): Invalid argument I also attempted 'pppstats tun0' PITA# pppstats tun0 pppstats: invalid interface 'tun0' specified pppstats: couldn't get PPP statistics: Invalid argument PITA# pppstats -h pppstats: illegal option -- h Usage: pppstats [-a|-d] [-v|-r|-z] [-c count] [-w wait] [interface] Is there anything that I need to set in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf or a sysctr= l? Rob=20 >=09---Mike --=20 ---------------------- Rob Zietlow Network Security Engineer=09 SecurePipe, Inc Madison, WI (608) 294-6940 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message