Quentin Garnier wrote:

>On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:25:49PM -0500, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote:
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>>I am having trouble connecting to my DSL provider using NetBSD's PPPOE 
>>(version 2.0.2).
>>
>>I set up the link following the instructions in the man pages for 
>>setting up DSL via pppOE, without setting the default route for the 
>>reasons that will be clear below.
>>
>>Output of 'pppoectl -d pppoe0 shows I am authenticated:
>>
>>pppoe0: state = session
>>       Session ID: 0x336
>>       PADI retries: 0
>>       PADR retries: 0
>>
>>Output of ifconfig pppoe0 shows I have ip addresses assigned:
>>
>>pppoe0: flags=8851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1492
>>       inet 70.21.110.65 -> 10.1.17.1 netmask 0xffffffff
>>       inet6 fe80::212:17ff:fe51:80b%pppoe0 ->  prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
>>
>>Output of ping -c 3 10.1.17.1 shows I can ping the peer's end of the link:
>>
>>PING 10.1.17.1 (10.1.17.1): 56 data bytes
>>64 bytes from 10.1.17.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=25.055 ms
>>64 bytes from 10.1.17.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=25.707 ms
>>64 bytes from 10.1.17.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=25.516 ms
>>
>>----10.1.17.1 PING Statistics----
>>3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
>>round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 25.055/25.426/25.707/0.335 ms
>>
>>So far, everything looks fine, but . . .
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>>Output of ping -c 3 70.21.110.65 shows I cannot ping the local end of 
>>the link:
>>
>>PING 70.21.110.65 (70.21.110.65): 56 data bytes
>>
>>----70.21.110.65 PING Statistics----
>>3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
>>PING 70.21.110.65 (70.21.110.65): 56 data bytes
>>ping: sendto: No route to host
>>ping: sendto: No route to host
>>ping: sendto: No route to host
>>
>>----70.21.110.65 PING Statistics----
>>3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss
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>>Why can I ping the peer ip address but not the local ip address?
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>>Also, when I set the default route to be 10.1.17.1 (the peer), I am not 
>>able to ping either the the peer or the local address, and ping gives no 
>>output at all, not even the 'ping: sendto: No route to host' message.
>>
>>So I cannot connect to the internet at all using pppoe on NetBSD.
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>What does your routing table look like?
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It depends on my configuration. Normally it is setup as a 
router/firewall with NAT to provide internet access to other computers 
on the local network. Give me about an hour and let me simplify it as 
much as possible by turning off NAT, ip forwarding, the ipf firewall, 
and the other network interface and show you the routing table in that case.