Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe-status returns the wrong infomation! might be a bug..

[Farhan Ahmed]

fei huang wrote:
> I've configued the rp-pppoe following the updated instruction in Gentoo
> Handbook,  and my ADSL modem can be brought up at start up , [...]

You can altogether do away with rp-pppoe, if you look in
/etc/conf.d/net.example, you'll find the new confug syntax for bringing
the ADSL connection up. It's like this :

  config_ppp0=( "ppp" )
  link_ppp0="eth0"
  plugins_ppp0=( "pppoe" )
  username_ppp0='username'
  password_ppp0='password'
  pppd_ppp0=( "noauth" "updetach" "defaultroute" "usepeerdns" "holdoff 0" )

You don't need rp-pppoe package anymore to use your ADSL connection.

> however, the
> pppoe-status always returns message says that the PID file could not be
> found (which is definity wrong!). my network was working of course..  so.
> I  found  this  issue  was caused by the $PIDFILE  which is defined in the
> /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf and read by pppoe-status script. but the comment right
> above that line says:
>
> # NB: Gentoo overrides PIDFILE when pppoe-start is run from the
> # networking scripts.  This setting has no effect in that case.
>
> # below is the original definition
> #PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-pppoe.pid"
>
> # Still wrong after I comment out the line above, so I have to change like
> this:
> PIDFILE="/var/run/rp-pppoe-eth0.pid"
>
> It works now though, I wonder if this is a small bug, i.e.  the $PIDFILE has
> never been defined except in the pppoe.conf,
> and unfortunately, the only definition is not correct..

Strange!! I had never come across this issue when I was using rp-pppoe
for my ADSL connection.

Farhan Ahmed
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