[gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

[Jorge Almeida]

I'm about to switch from cable to ADSL anytime soon, and I'm trying to
prepare the computer for the big change, given that there will be a time
gap without internet access and that I can't expect any support
whatsoever from the provider's staff. Of course, I can't do any
testing...

According to
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3,
it seems that it is enough to emerge net-dialup/rp-pppoe, edit
/etc/conf.d/net and edit /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. Is this correct? I mean,
what about the contents of /etc/ppp/, like /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? Aren't
we supposed to edit at least the latter?
The handbook says the contents of /etc/ppp/pap-secrets must be
"username"  *  "password"
but /usr/share/doc/rp-pppoe-3.8/pap-secrets.gz says it must be like
bxxxxx@×××××××××.ca     *               my_password     *
(i.e., another * and no quotes...)
Can someone clarify this point?

Another matter that is not clear to me: what about  pppoe-start and all
other commands mentioned in "man pppoe"? I think that
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 works as a wrapper and will invoke the appropriate
commands as needed. Is this correct, and can I safely ignore such
commands?


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Jorge Almeida
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