Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:51:51 +1100 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: PPPoA section of FreeBSD Handbook Message-ID: <20121120005151.GB86793@ozzmosis.com> In-Reply-To: <20121120004938.GA86793@ozzmosis.com> References: <20121120004938.GA86793@ozzmosis.com>
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On Tue 2012-11-20 11:49:38 UTC+1100, andrew clarke (mail@ozzmosis.com) wrote: > In the meantime I've switched to using mpd5 (/usr/ports/net/mpd5) and > /sbin/ipnat. So far, so good: > > # ifconfig ng0 > ng0: flags=88d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1492 > inet 124.170.51.116 --> 203.215.7.251 netmask 0xffffffff Incidentally the PPPoA section of the FreeBSD is very out of date: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoa.html The ambiguously named net/pppoa port in section 28.6.1 has been marked as broken since 2009. (Ambiguous since it's only for a particular brand of USB ASDL modem.) In section 28.6.2 the example provided is a config file for mpd 4.x which does not work in mpd 5.x. net/mpd4 was deleted from the ports tree 11 months ago. net/mpd5 doesn't seem to support PPPoA, only PPPoE. I could find no reference to PPPoA in the manual or source code. The net/pptpclient port listed in section 28.6.3 does build but issues errors when run: # pptp 192.168.1.1 iinet /bin/ip: not found /bin/ip: not found Plus it's not clear what advantage it's supposed to have over the regular /usr/sbin/ppp. The pptp source code doesn't mention PPPoA, despite what the FreeBSD handbook suggests. Regards Andrew
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