From owner-freebsd-net Tue Nov 20 11:40:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (c421509-a.pinol1.sfba.home.com [24.7.86.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 981E137B419 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:40:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA34119; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:22:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:22:55 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de Cc: Matthew Emmerton , brian@awfulhak.org, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problem with PPP/Netgraph (PPPoE) In-Reply-To: <1006284056.3bfaad18e931a@citadel.mobility.ccrle.nec.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 the way to debug this is to run tcpdump on the ethernet card in question tcpdump knows how to interpret pppoe packets and it's good to see what is coming over from the other end.. On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 Martin.Stiemerling@ccrle.nec.de wrote: > > > What is happening is that when ppp starts on bootup (ppp -quiet -ddial > > pppoe), the last entry is "dial -> carrier" and nothing else. Normally > > Looks like that the ethernet connection between your host and the modem is > broken. I get the same message when I unplug my ethernet wire. > > Cheers > Martin > > > > we > > get a "PPPOE hook suceeded (tun0)" message after that and it goes into > > the > > LCP/IPCP phase. > > > > I'd like to point the finger at the ISP (since they've had fun dropping > > connections in the past and they swapped out the modem without telling > > us > > -- long story, don't ask), but need to know how to interpret this > > message. > > Are we not getting any further because a) ppp can't talk to NETGRAPH, > > b) > > NETGRAPH can't talk PPPoE to the DSL modem (bad NIC) or c) DSL modem > > isn't > > passing along our data to the ISP (bad ISP.) > > > > -- > > Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca > > GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message