Re: PPPoE connection uses wrong NIC

[Graham Beneke <graham-ml apolix co za>]

Quintin Beukes wrote:
> I am trying to connect to a wireless-broadband provider using an
> iBurst modem. The driver creates a network device, which reports

If you dig through the archives you'll find a number of mentions of this 
issue. The devs are aware of the problem and there is work being done to 
support PPPoE on interfaces other than eth0. I'm not sure what the 
current progress is on this.

There is also some work being done to rewrite the iBurst driver and get 
it rolled into the kernel but that has been a little slow.

> itself as a wireless device (so iwconfig lists the signal strength).
> It's not a GPRS/3G, so I can't take the wireless-broadband steps in
> the connection editor. The DSL steps should work perfectly, except the
> nic passed to pppd is my ethernet device instead of the one created by
> the driver. PPPoE must happen via this device, where the driver will
> pass it onto the modem via USB and the rest happens as usual.
>
> Either way, when NetworkManager invokes pppd, it does it as follows:
> Dec 29 12:31:47 quintin-VIAO NetworkManager: <debug>
> [1262082707.053800] nm_ppp_manager_start(): Command line:
> /usr/sbin/pppd nodetach lock nodefaultroute user <my-user> plugin
> rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noauth nodeflate usepeerdns mru 1492 mtu 1492
> lcp-echo-failure 3 lcp-echo-interval 20 ipparam
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/PPP/8 plugin
> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.4/nm-pppd-plugin.so
>
> As you can see, rp-pppoe.so is passed the parameter nic-eth0. This
> should instead be ib0. If I copy this line and remove the
> nm-pppd-plugin and change the nic-eth0 to ib0 I can connect (in fact,
> that's how I sent this e-mail).
>
> How can I configure network manager to use the correct nic?
>
> My current configuration file:
> [connection]
> id=iBurst
> uuid=60d71ae5-7c0e-4bf9-a338-939fe95585b2
> type=pppoe
> autoconnect=false
> timestamp=0
>
> [ppp]
> noauth=true
> refuse-eap=false
> refuse-pap=false
> refuse-chap=false
> refuse-mschap=false
> refuse-mschapv2=false
> nobsdcomp=false
> nodeflate=false
> no-vj-comp=false
> require-mppe=false
> require-mppe-128=false
> mppe-stateful=false
> crtscts=false
> baud=0
> mru=1492
> mtu=1492
> lcp-echo-failure=0
> lcp-echo-interval=0
>
> [ipv4]
> method=auto
> ignore-auto-routes=false
> ignore-auto-dns=false
> dhcp-send-hostname=false
> never-default=false
>
> [pppoe]
> username=Anita_Geber iburst co za
> password=080889SH
>
> [802-3-ethernet]
> speed=0
> duplex=full
> auto-negotiate=true
> mtu=1492
>
> I tried adding a mac-address line to the ethernet section, but this
> results in the connection being marked as invalid, and not being
> available.
>
> Quintin Beukes
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