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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