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Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 18:32:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: mi@privatelabs.com
To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <200005050812.JAA00532@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
Subject: Re: the sample ppp.conf lacks a PPPoE entry 

>Number:         18404
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Re: the sample ppp.conf lacks a PPPoE entry
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 07 01:10:06 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Sun May 7 06:49:51 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Wed Oct 26 05:56:22 GMT 2005
>Originator:     
>Release:        
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
 On  5 May, Brian Somers wrote:
 = Hi,
 = 
 = There's already a pppoe/pppoed example in 
 = share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample - it looks roughly similar to 
 = this.
 
 Personally, I grew accustomed to looking into the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
 for "almost working" examples. Then again, may be it is time for me
 to change...
 
 	-mi
 
 = > >Fix: 
 = > 	The following patch may help figuring things out. Stolen from
 = > 		http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/pppoe.html
 = > 
 = > --- ppp.conf	Fri Aug 27 19:24:08 1999
 = > +++ ppp.conf	Wed May  3 12:30:11 2000
 = > @@ -36 +36,13 @@
 = >   set authkey PASSWORD
 = > +
 = > +# The following entry can be used with ``ppp -ddial pppoe'' command.
 = > +# Search the handbook and FAQ for PPPoE for more information.
 = > +# Put the login name and password your ISP gave you in right place:
 = > +pppoe:
 = > + set device PPPoE:xl1 # replace xl1 with your ethernet device
 = > + set mru 1492
 = > + set mtu 1492
 = > + set authname YOURLOGINNAME
 = > + set authkey YOURPASSWORD
 = > + set dial
 = > + set login
 
 
 
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sun May 7 06:49:51 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Followup to another PR. 
>Unformatted:
