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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1 i686; Nav) I have added support for PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) based DSL connections to Redhat's ifup script. My changes are dependent on the PPPoE patch for pppd and kernel 2.4 with PPPoE and packet socket support. A patched version of pppd, which adds the PPPoE plugin, may be found at http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mostrows/ppp-2.4.0-pppoe4.tgz. As far as I have seen, no pppd rpms contain this PPPoE plugin. The maintainer of initscripts may find a more elegant way of doing this, but I feel it is a very important feature. Here is my patch to ifup-post: --- ifup-post.orig Mon Feb 19 09:00:15 2001 +++ ifup-post Mon Feb 19 09:07:01 2001 @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ ISALIAS=no fi +if [ x"$PPPOE" = xyes ]; then + pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoe.so user $PAPNAME $DEVICE +fi + if [ "$ISALIAS" = no ] ; then /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases ${DEVICE} Once the above patch has been applied, adding lines such as PPPOE=yes and PAPNAME=foo to, for example, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 should allow PPPoE to work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Have you tried the rp-pppoe pacakage at all?
The rp-pppoe package seems to work. Using a patch like the one above and a pppd with PPPoE support seems cleaner to me. I like to keep things as consistent as possible; the above patch handles a PPPoE connection almost the same as a traditional PPP connection. PPPoE support can be compiled as a module; if one does not use it they lose very little. Why would we want PPP in the kernel but not PPPoE? Why handle PPP with an ifcfg-* but PPPoE in with an init script? What do others think?
Something along these lines was added for the Roswell beta.