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    No logs of pppoe process

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      netblues @w0w
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      @w0w Stephan said "YET"

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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        Yes, the logging needs to be tweaked. Currently the only logging you see are for unexpected events. Most of which are harmless, like:

        Apr 21 20:54:38 	kernel 		if_pppoe: pppoe0: pap failure
        Apr 21 20:54:38 	kernel 		if_pppoe: pppoe: GENERIC ERROR (errortag 1)
        Apr 21 21:00:25 	kernel 		if_pppoe: pppoe0: failed to set default route 17 
        ...
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          netblues @stephenw10
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          And now logging works again :)

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            w0w @netblues
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            @netblues said in No logs of pppoe process:

            And now logging works again :)

            What? 😃
            Did you switch to old backend?

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              netblues @w0w
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              @w0w Certainly not

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              May 18 11:26:20 ppp 44990 [wan] IFACE: Rename interface ng0 to pppoe0
              May 18 11:26:20 ppp 44990 [wan] IFACE: Up event

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                w0w @netblues
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                @netblues
                This looks like something is broken — this is a typical mpd5 log when using Netgraph. ng0 is netgraph and this is not used in new backend

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                  Yup, ng0 should never exist if it's using if_pppoe.

                  You can check it using: pppcfg pppoe0

                  That will return nothing if it's not an if_pppoe interface.

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                    The only way to get additional output from if_pppoe I'm aware of is to enable debug mode like: ifconfig pppoe0 debug

                    You will then get a lot of output at the console and dmesg.

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                      netblues @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 So, this is another bug.
                      The state of the checkbox doesn't reflect the use of new kernel mode.
                      Most probably is set when you switch the interface, but if you restore the configuration
                      it is ignored..

                      Steps to reproduce
                      Backup configuration on latest 25.03 beta, using kernel ppp
                      Install ce 2.7.2 clean.
                      restore 25.03 beta configuration to get system going
                      Run upgrades as requested to latest 25.03
                      And then restore configuration again, just in case something went missing and you end
                      with mpd5 logs

                      I'll try to switch it off an on again and see if it behaves.

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
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                        It's a loadable kernel module so it's only loaded at boot after the loader line has been added.

                        If you load the config into 2.7.2 (which isn't valid) that setting doesn't do anything. When you upgrade to 25.03 it reboots but the loader line still isn't present. So once it's in 25.03 the loader lin e will have been added but the module won't actually load until the next boot.

                        If you upgrade to 25.03 first then restore the config it should work as expected.

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                          netblues @stephenw10
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                          @stephenw10 Yes, but I must restore the configuration to make things work .

                          After switching config twice, I ended up into another corner situation
                          Last messages logged (at shutdown due to kernel mode ppp checked)
                          May 18 18:45:24 ppp 50090 process 50090 terminated
                          May 18 18:45:24 ppp 50090 [wan_link0] Link: Shutdown
                          May 18 18:45:24 ppp 50090 [wan] Bundle: Shutdown

                          but, after reboot
                          No more ppp logs BUT
                          pppcfg pppoe0
                          dev: vtnet0 state: session
                          sid: 0xafc8 PADI retries: 0 PADR retries: 0 time: 00:07:59
                          sppp: phase network authproto auto authname "xxxxx@xxx.com" peerproto auto
                          dns: 212.205.212.205 195.170.0.1
                          e50af13c-a456-4e4a-b8b3-1dc00caf018f-image.png

                          What am I running? How do we fix this?

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                            w0w @netblues
                            last edited by w0w

                            @netblues said in No logs of pppoe process:

                            What am I running?

                            Now it is If_pppoe and pppoe session established successfully.

                            @netblues said in No logs of pppoe process:

                            How do we fix this?

                            What is wrong?
                            Post bug report on redmine, I think…

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @netblues
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                              @netblues said in No logs of pppoe process:

                              No more ppp logs BUT
                              pppcfg pppoe0
                              dev: vtnet0 state: session
                              sid: 0xafc8 PADI retries: 0 PADR retries: 0 time: 00:07:59
                              sppp: phase network authproto auto authname "xxxxx@xxx.com" peerproto auto
                              dns: 212.205.212.205 195.170.0.1

                              That's the correct expected output with if_pppoe loaded and working. There is no problem there.

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                                netblues @stephenw10
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                                @stephenw10 said in No logs of pppoe process:

                                You can check it using: pppcfg pppoe0

                                That will return nothing if it's not an if_pppoe interface.

                                Based on that I misunderstood that still I should get nothing when running kernel too.
                                Thanks for clearing it up

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                                  ajama1 @stephenw10
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                                  @stephenw10 In the PFSENSE 2.8 release, is it correct that PPP log entries in the GUI will show when the mpd5 module is used instead of the if_pppoe module?

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                                  • stephenw10S
                                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                    last edited by

                                    Yes the logs will be shown there the same as previous versions if you don't enable if_pppoe.

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