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    Upgrade from 12/13 to 12/18 -> PPPoE dead…

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      @jlepthien:

      Try to do a complete reinstall with the latest snap. It works for a long time now here on my Alix…

      Didn't you remove your modem access opt interface though?

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        jlepthien
        last edited by

        Yes I did and that why it is working…

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          Yeah, it's still broken for people who have their modem interface assigned.

          No changes have happened that would try to fix it though, so it isn't likely to start working for others until a fix gets committed.

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            romainp
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            With 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Sat Jan 15 02:40:01 EST 2011

            It works! Very cool!

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              Except that there were still no changes that would have impacted that functionality…

              You might look closer into why the last two Saturday updates seem to have worked for you but nothing in between. Perhaps the timing on your part has more to do with it than anything we've changed. :-)

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                jlepthien
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                @romainp:

                With 2.0-BETA5 (i386) built on Sat Jan 15 02:40:01 EST 2011

                It works! Very cool!

                And you have enabled OPTx(WAN) in order to access your modem through that?

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                  romainp
                  last edited by

                  My setup is

                  wan (em0) –- pppoe --- dsl router---internet
                        dsl (opt) (em0) ---------

                  So yes, I have an opt interface connected to my dsl router as well as a pppoe connection for the wan using same phy interface em0

                  Romain

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                    jlepthien
                    last edited by

                    @romainp:

                    My setup is

                    wan (em0) –- pppoe --- dsl router---internet
                          dsl (opt) (em0) ---------

                    So yes, I have an opt interface connected to my dsl router as well as a pppoe connection for the wan using same phy interface em0

                    Romain

                    Thanks. I'll check with the latest snap if it works for me now as well….

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                      romainp
                      last edited by

                      @jimp:

                      Except that there were still no changes that would have impacted that functionality…

                      You might look closer into why the last two Saturday updates seem to have worked for you but nothing in between. Perhaps the timing on your part has more to do with it than anything we've changed. :-)

                      Sure, I will try to investigate why it is working now even if no code changes have been made concerning this issue. Thanks for the info!

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                        jlepthien
                        last edited by

                        It is not working (probably because there were no changes at all) with OPT enabled for Modem access on WAN. As soon as I enabled the OPT interfaces my PPPoE was brought down and I had the same problem as always. PPP trying to connect all the time…
                        Did not even try to do an update then...

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                          gnhb
                          last edited by

                          Hi Guys,

                          Try commenting out line 2620 in /etc/inc/interfaces.inc. (" interface_netgraph_needed($interface);  ") (add a // to the front of the line to make it a comment.).

                          GB

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                            jlepthien
                            last edited by

                            @gnhb:

                            Hi Guys,

                            Try commenting out line 2620 in /etc/inc/interfaces.inc. (" interface_netgraph_needed($interface);   ") (add a // to the front of the line to make it a comment.).

                            GB

                            Hi m8,

                            yeah, that works! What does this function do? Is that easy to fix now? I didn't do a firmware upgrade now, but I activated OPT for modem access and rebooted. As soon as my pfSense box was reachable I saw that the PPPoE connection was up as well….

                            Nice!

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                              gnhb
                              last edited by

                              That function was added as an optimization for very high bandwidth interfaces that don't need netgraph nodes, but apparently, more interfaces need the nodes attached than the function allows.

                              GB

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                                jlepthien
                                last edited by

                                Thanks for the clarification. Can somebody now 'fix' this? Or is this more complicated than commenting that out? Am I right that every update will change that file to the original state?

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  The underlying function needs fixed, not removed. So it's a bit more complex than just commenting out one line.

                                  Until it's fixed in our repo this workaround would have to be repeated after each update.

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                                    eri--
                                    last edited by

                                    Hmmm try this
                                    http://tinyurl.com/6cfx2ja seems i was doing a check wrong.

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                                      jlepthien
                                      last edited by

                                      Hi ermal,

                                      no, that doesn't work for me. I removed the // from line 2620 and applied your fix. Still not connecting when booting up. Had to remove my opt interface again and click save on WAN…

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                                        _igor_
                                        last edited by

                                        With update from 01/18 i lost my PPPOE completely. Had more problems while updating packages. After a while of working state PPPOE was lost. And never came back. Nor a downgrade to 01/15 resolved the problem.
                                        Tried that edit from interfaces.inc with no success.
                                        Its an i386 install, XL0 is not assigned (its my WAN.) Only LAN, no opt nor other interfaces present. PPP-log only retries to connect. Only tries to connect show up at the logs. No errors so far, nor success.

                                        Packages present: squid, squidguard, lightsquid, cron and OVPN-Exporter. Nothing more.

                                        So at last i was caught too with this failure of PPPOE. :-(

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                                          clarknova
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                                          Is this still a problem? I'm still running a snap from the 12th, not planning to update unless there's hope for a change (for this or the panic problem)..

                                          db

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                                            romainp
                                            last edited by

                                            At least for me, the issue is still there from the latest yesterday's snap.

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