On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 08:14:01PM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> When I reboot with an automatic setup I repeatedly get the error
> "pppoe0: received unexpected PADO".  The message is repeated in
> rapid succession, so the console fills up in no time.

In more detail, the message is repeated 7 times in very rapid succession,
followed by a very short pause and then seven times again.  Then there is
a pause of a few seconds, after which the cycle repeats -- so essencially,
14 lines, pause, 14lines ...

> Having zero experience with pppoe, I really don't know where to
> start.  It does seem strange to me that nowhere is there an IP
> address associated with this connection, at least not one shown

This isn't quite right.  Looking more carefully, there is an IP address
of sorts: "inet 0.0.0.0 -> 0.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000".  This doesn't
seem right, though.  Shouldn't those be "real" IP addresses, and with a
netmask of 0xffffff00 or 0xffffffff?  Those 0.0.0.0 and 0.0.0.1 are
the numbers I supply in the /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0 file.  Should I not
supply them, and only declare the pppoe interface "up"?

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henry nelson
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