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No logs of pppoe process

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    netblues @stephenw10
    last edited by 22 days ago

    And now logging works again :)

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      w0w @netblues
      last edited by 22 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 22 days ago

        @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
          last edited by 22 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 22 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 22 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 22 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 22 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 22 days ago 22 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 22 days ago 22 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 22 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 22 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 15 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 15 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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