WAN PPPoE on Releases Since 3-23-2007

sullrich

Take /etc/rc.newwanip from a 1.0.1 (or working box) and move to the newer snapshot and test again.

dwhess

@sullrich:

Take /etc/rc.newwanip from a 1.0.1 (or working box) and move to the newer snapshot and test again.

Thanks for the suggestion. I just tried it and got the same result. :/

cmb

Interesting, looks like this might be getting closer to the cause of this:
http://cvstrac.pfsense.com/tktview?tn=1315,6

the cause of which we have no clue at this point, as it works for the vast majority of people…

nothing helpful to add, just hope you'll be able to help us get to the bottom of this. ;D

dwhess

As I originally posted, the problem goes back months for me but I never assigned it enough significance to post about it until 1.2-BETA-1 failed in the same way. I figured it was a transient problem that would be resolved in a more recent snapshot.

I read through that other thread a couple of days ago and tried the suggestions (including swapping an rl card for my fxp) but the failure was always the same. I will probably investigate mpd over the next couple of days.

cmb

It would be great if you could check out mpd. We can't replicate the problem so it's difficult for us to debug and fix it.

dwhess

I managed to set mpd to use "log +all" and recovered the following logs which show that the problem is just after mpd negotiates the connection:

Working 1.0.1-SNAPSHOT-03-15-2007:

http://www.banishedsouls.org/c2df3757f1/mpd.log.working.txt

Broken 1.2-BETA-1-TESTING-SNAPSHOT-06-06-2007:

http://www.banishedsouls.org/c2df3757f1/mpd.log.broken.txt

There are significant differences just after "IFACE: Up event" but I am not clear about what the problem is yet.

dwhess

After inspecting the changes in mpd.conf generated by interfaces.inc I found that removing "set ipcp enable req-sec-dns" allows PPPoE to work.

sullrich

Download config.xml and add to the <pppoe>section:

So it should look something like

<pppoe><dnsnosec>true</dnsnosec>
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Also call your ISP and suggest that they give out 2 dns server addresses like most of the other ISP's do on the planet.</pppoe></pppoe>

dwhess

Download config.xml and add to the <pppoe>section:
<dnsnosec>true</dnsnosec></pppoe>

That works. Thanks.

I understood the php code enough to recognize the flag but did not know where it was set.

Also call your ISP and suggest that they give out 2 dns server addresses like most of the other ISP's do on the planet.

PPPoE is not my connection type of choice but it does have the distinction of being available here. I will send an email to Earthlink (also not my first choice) but I doubt they will be interested. I actually do not even use their DNS servers because of repeated reliability issues.

jeroen234

thats the resun that a isp gives you 2 dns servers
fails the first then the 2end will be asked