Bug 18403

Summary: Re: the sample ppp.conf lacks a PPPoE entry
Product: Documentation Reporter: Brian Somers <brian>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: GNATS administrator <gnats-admin>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: FreeBSD-gnats-submit
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Brian Somers 2000-05-07 09:10:05 UTC
 Hi,
 
 There's already a pppoe/pppoed example in 
 share/examples/ppp/ppp.conf.sample - it looks roughly similar to 
 this.
 
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Originator:     Mikhail Teterin
 > >Organization:   Virtual Estates, Inc.
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Synopsis:       the sample ppp.conf lacks a PPPoE entry
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Category:       conf
 > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
 > >Class:          doc-bug
 > >Environment: 
 > 
 > >Description: 
 > 
 > 	See Synposis.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat: 
 > 
 > 	Ask your father to figure out how to configure ppp to
 > 	use PPPoE :)
 > 
 > >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
 > 
 
 -- 
 Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
 Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
Comment 1 Steve Price freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2000-05-07 15:10:02 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Followup to another PR.