Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:05:18 -0500 From: Sten Daniel Soersdal <sten.daniel.sorsdal@gmail.com> To: James Long <james@umpquanet.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE : FreeBSD pppoed doesn't communicate with Linksys BEFSR41 ver. 2 Message-ID: <45D34F5E.8060609@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070212213441.GA44882@ns.umpquanet.com> References: <20070212213441.GA44882@ns.umpquanet.com>
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James Long wrote: > There are no log entries, presumably because pppoed does not even see > a PPPoE service request coming from the linksys. If someone can educate > me on how to use e.g. tcpdump to capture the PPPoE session setup traffic > to confirm or refute this, I'm willing to learn. Try dumping the connection attempts with tcpdump like: tcpdump -pi fxp1 -w /tmp/mydump.cap -s 1600 Then loading the mydump.cap file in ethereal might prove more useful. Also i've seen a handful or two of commercial routers that simply do not set the right fields in the packets. I wouldn't be too quick to blame ppp. -- Sten Daniel Soersdal
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