[RP-PPPoE] rp-pppoe.so in kernel mode

[Palasamudram, Chaitra (NSN - IN/Bangalore)]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the replies but it's still not working for me. I am doing the following :

1. I am not doing a fresh installation/configuration of PPPD and rp-pppoe package.
2. They are already installed and I am trying to use the Makefile to build the binaries and plugin.
3. In PPPD Makefile, PLUGIN=y. Apart from this I don't see any option that talks about rp-pppoe plugging
4. I build rp-pppoe.so separately in rp-pppoe directory (by adding the header files that you have mentioned)
5. I added "plugin rp-pppoe.so" in /etc/ppp/options file.
6. I removed this line from /etc/ppp/options "pty '/bin/pppoe -I eth3 -U  -C "Chaitra" -S "kernel-pppoe"' => this invokes user space pppoe
7. NOW, the Question that I have is, how to give Ethernet Interface name to pppd to use. I don't see an option.
8. I tried this: "pppd eth3" => this fails with unrecognized option. 


You have mentioned below these 2 steps :
Step 1: you must have ppp with rp-pppoe pluging
Step 2: sources of ppp or headers to complile rp-pppoe

What do you mean by this and how to achieve this ?? 


Appreciate your help a lot. 


Thanks in advance.

Regards
Chaitra 

-----Original Message-----
From: ext Adrian Ban [mailto:adrian at abtelecom.ro] 
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 1:17 PM
To: Palasamudram, Chaitra (NSN - IN/Bangalore)
Cc: For users of RP-PPPoE client/server software
Subject: Re: [RP-PPPoE] rp-pppoe.so in kernel mode

I think that pppoe-config or an ncurses configuration for pppoe can it 
gives you a config.
I don't remember quite right but I think you must have ppp compiled with 
pppoe plugin and you must add "plugin rp-pppoe.so" in the ppp options file.
Also I forgot to tell you that in the pppoe-server side you also must 
add this kind of line too to benefit of full kernel mode.

Step 1: you must have ppp with rp-pppoe pluging
Step 2: sources of ppp or headers to complile rp-pppoe
Step 3: compile rp-pppoe with --enable-plugin (don't forgot about the 
in6.h headers to be added in config tests or else rp-pppoe will not be 
complied with kernel mode and the configuration will give you that 
support for 2.4.x kernel mode .. no)
Step 4: add "plugin rp-pppoe.so" to ppp options file
Step 5: start the pppoe-server with -k and the ppp options file

Best regards,
Adrian

On 9/23/2013 9:35 AM, Palasamudram, Chaitra (NSN - IN/Bangalore) wrote:
> Hi Adrian
>
> Thanks.
>
> I was using user space pppoe on client side in the following way with pppd.
> In the pppd options file I used to give the following option :
> /etc/ppp/options :
> pty 'pppoe -I eth3'
>
> Could you also, let me know how this pppd options file should look if I want to use kernel mode plugin.
>
> Thanks in advance for reply.
>
>
> Regards
> Chaitra
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Adrian Ban [mailto:adrian at abtelecom.ro]
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:33 AM
> To: For users of RP-PPPoE client/server software; Palasamudram, Chaitra (NSN - IN/Bangalore); Palasamudram, Chaitra (NSN - IN/Bangalore)
> Subject: Re: [RP-PPPoE] rp-pppoe.so in kernel mode
>
> Hi,
>
> You must compile rp-pppoe  with --enable-plugin argument to configure.
> After that you start pppoe-server with -k option.
> Be careful with configure that is missing some includes in some tests for
> pppoe kernel support. I've added 2 in6.h headers in 2 parts of rp-pppoe
> sources. I've submitted this issue to the developers and they told me that
> they added missing header, buy I don't know if they released a new version.
>
> For your security check confog.log after you run configure and search for
> "kernel" and check if the compiled test program successed or not.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Adrian
>

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