Subject: Re: Can't establish ADSL connection
To: Bang Jun-Young <bjy@mogua.org>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/22/2000 07:55:39
Bang Jun-Young wrote
> Laine Stump wrote:
> > 1) Did you install from pkgsrc's net/rp-pppoe package? If not, do it that
> > way (rather than grabbing the package yourself and installing by hand).
> >
> > 2) Have you tried net/mouse-pppoe (again from pkgsrc)? This worked for
> > me with no problem other than the MTU being too high (I had to
> > re-add the default route with "-mtu 1400").
> >
> > I also built and installed rp-ppoe, but the configuration looked more
> > involved than mouse-pppoe, so I never actually tried it.
>
> Finally, I found it why it didn't work(!). The problem was in adsl-status
> script:
> case `uname -s` in
> *BSD)
> VARRUN="/etc/ppp"
> ;;
> *)
> VARRUN="/var/run"
> ;;
>
> As you can see, adsl-status tries to find ppp?.pid files in /etc/ppp, but
> with 1.5 release, the above doesn't work any more. pid files are placed in
> /var/run just like in Linux. After commenting out the first *BSD) case, I
> could successfully set up the ADSL connection. Anyway, thanks for your
> comment.
Wouldn't it be better to insert a new case statement that specifically
uses NetBSD?
e.g.:
NetBSD)
VARRUN="/var/run"
;;
*BSD)
VARRUN="/etc/ppp"
;;
*)
VARRUN="/var/run"
;;
This may be submitted to the author of this program for inclusion in
any future releases.
cheerio Berndt
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