[RP-PPPoE] query on pppoe client setup

[Dave Osbourne]

On 2020-10-21 22:19, SIMON BABY wrote:
> 1. Can we have more than one PPPoE session on the same interface? If 
> so, do we get separate IP addresses for each session?
>
Someone this list is definitely going to discipline me for this... but 
here goes...

In South Africa we have /multiple /sessions with different IPs (*same 
*Ethernet, *same *Modem, *same *IAP) no problem

In the UK I've never tried that.  I do have *same *physical Ethernet, 
but /DIFFERENT /VLANs and /multiple /modems and /multiple /IAPs with 
different IPs - no problem.

I'm not sure how /multiple/ modems *same *ethernet (no VLANs) will 
work...  perhaps Dianne / someone who knows more will revert...


> 2.  How to manage and monitor each session? Do we have a script  or 
> process available in the package ?
Um, I just have the Debian /etc/network/interfaces do this:

    auto IAP
    iface IAP inet ppp
             pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
             provider IAP

where IAPmatches a file name from /etc/ppp/peers


> 3. Can I fork a process (sorry I am more a C developer) and invoke 
> pppoe process with necessary parameters ?
hahahea...  I'm more Java (and PHP and BASH) and I have NO IDEA... 
you've exhaused my knowledge now (;   I would be VERY keen to know the 
answer when you find it though!


D



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