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No logs of pppoe process

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    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
    last edited by Apr 23, 2025, 9:12 PM

    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
      last edited by 28 days ago

      And now logging works again :)

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        w0w @netblues
        last edited by 28 days ago

        @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
          last edited by 28 days ago

          @w0w Certainly not

          0ababe15-d78b-47f6-a1e0-530da6909849-image.png

          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
            last edited by 28 days ago

            @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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              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by 28 days ago

              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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                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by 28 days ago

                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
                  last edited by 28 days ago

                  @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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                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by 28 days ago

                    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
                      last edited by netblues 28 days ago 28 days ago

                      @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 28 days ago 28 days ago

                        @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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                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator @netblues
                          last edited by 28 days ago

                          @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
                            last edited by 27 days ago

                            @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
                              last edited by 21 days ago

                              @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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                                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                last edited by 21 days ago

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

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