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On Saturday 13 May 2006 15:59, fei huang wrote: |
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> I've configued the rp-pppoe following the updated instruction in |
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> Gentoo Handbook, and my ADSL modem can be brought up at start up , |
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> however, the pppoe-status always returns message says that the PID |
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> file could not be found (which is definity wrong!). my network was |
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> working of course.. so. I found this issue was caused by the |
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> $PIDFILE which is defined in the /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf and read by |
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> pppoe-status script. but the comment right above that line says: |
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> # NB: Gentoo overrides PIDFILE when pppoe-start is run from the |
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> # networking scripts. This setting has no effect in that case. |
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> # below is the original definition |
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> #PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-pppoe.pid" |
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> # Still wrong after I comment out the line above, so I have to change |
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> like this: |
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> PIDFILE="/var/run/rp-pppoe-eth0.pid" |
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> It works now though, I wonder if this is a small bug, i.e. the |
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> $PIDFILE has never been defined except in the pppoe.conf, |
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> and unfortunately, the only definition is not correct.. |
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Umm, the instructions in the Handbook point to the method where Gentoo |
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uses the kernel based pppoe rather than rp-pppoe. So rp-pppoe is never |
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active I think. |
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I could be wrong. |
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