<div dir="ltr">Hi Dave,<div><br></div><div>Thank you so much for the quick reply. Sorry I am a beginner and trying to make the setup and experiment. Got couple of more queries.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Can we have more than one PPPoE session on the same interface? If so, do we get separate IP addresses for each session?</div><div><br></div><div>2. How to manage and monitor each session? Do we have a script or process available in the package ?</div><div><br></div><div>3. Can I fork a process (sorry I am more a C developer) and invoke pppoe process with necessary parameters ? </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:58 PM Dave Osbourne <<a href="mailto:dave@osbourne.uk.eu.org">dave@osbourne.uk.eu.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Simon,<br>
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I'm making an attempt at a reply...<br>
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<div>On 2020-10-21 20:58, SIMON BABY wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><font color="#0000ff">Can I use any username and password ?</font></blockquote>
<font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000">No, these should be
given to you by your IAP (ISP)</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">what is USER=<a href="mailto:bxxxnxnx@sympatico.ca" target="_blank">bxxxnxnx@sympatico.ca</a> here
? is this same as I provided in pap-secrets ?</font></div>
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Yes, I beleive it is... I have "" around mine...<br>
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<div>3. Set up DNS<br>
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<font color="#0000ff">Is the above configuration mandatory
? if I don't provide DNS, will it work?</font></div>
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<font color="#0000ff"><font color="#000000">No, I don't think it
is, I pass "usepeerdns" and some magic happens results in the
ISP provided nameservers going into my /etc/resolve.conf</font><br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">Is the above steps mandatory?<br>
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It's not mandatory, but asking the question is worrying unless
you're doing this on a machine set up just for this experiment and
you accept that connecting it to the public internet could result in
compromise...<br>
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<div><font color="#0000ff">5. I am trying to invoke the
client set up process in my application . Do I have to
use scripts or binaries? What scripts and processes do I
have to invoke for proper setup ?</font></div>
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Um, I think I my setup differs from yours here... I can just type<br>
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]# pppd call <i>iap</i><i><br>
</i>where <i>iap </i>is a file in /etc/ppp/peers/<br>
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Regards,<br>
DaveO<br>
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