Re: PPPoE connection uses wrong NIC

[Quintin Beukes <quintin last za net>]

Thanks for the quick response. I'll grab the source and do it this way for now.

On the topic of the iBurst driver rewrite. Where can I get more
information on this?

Quintin Beukes



On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Graham Beneke <graham-ml apolix co za> wrote:
> 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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