Re: PPPoE over VLAN again

[Patrick Mansfield <patmans yahoo com>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Beniamino Galvani wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 09:44:23AM -0700, Patrick Mansfield via networkmanager-list wrote:
> > I've been trying to directly use my linux system as the router / gateway with my
> > CenturyLink ISP - it requires PPPoE and VLAN.
> >
> > Is PPPoE over VLAN supported by NetworkManager?
> >
> > I saw a response from 2017 that it was not supported, but can't tell if that's still
> > the case. 
> >
> > I'm using Fedora 31, I tried to get it working but so far have failed.
>
> Hi,
>
> PPPoE over VLAN is supported. Create a VLAN connection and then a
> PPPoE connection over it, for example in this way:
>
>  nmcli connection add type vlan ifname vlan1 vlan.parent enp8s0 vlan.id 5
>
>  nmcli connection add type pppoe ifname pppoe1 pppoe.parent vlan1 username myusername password mypass

Thanks ... that was helpful.

I still haven't gotten it working, I'm still trying to verify things and only have a
few hours a week to work on it (it takes down my ISP connection).

But for DHCP, do I set PPPoE to "automatic (PPPoE)"?

And disable IPv4 on the VLAN and ethernet?

-- Patrick