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Date:      Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:37:09 +0300
From:      Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledomenet.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
Subject:   Re: debugging pppoe
Message-ID:  <200706041537.11883.nvass@teledomenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <fb6605670705291038n39b1bc2aob7f755a154ac2751@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fb6605670705291038n39b1bc2aob7f755a154ac2751@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tuesday 29 May 2007 20:38, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I've turned logging up to All for ppp, for my DSL connection, and I've
> been disappointed to find that when it can't connect, ppp offers no
> help whatsoever as to why.
>
> I'm going to try rp-pppoe from ports, since on Linux it's actually
> quite helpful in full debug, but I'm surprised at how little BSD's ppp
> tells me when logging is turned right up.
>
> Any other suggestions?

ppp does not write much on the console. And that is probably a decision
made by the authors, since it is meant to be run mostly interactively.
You can see its logs in /var/log/ppp.log

HTH, Nikos



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