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From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: PPPOE
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 14:23:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1362921832.9109.34.camel@rice-oxley.tremer.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <assp.07802ce018.513A8A2B.4070803@dailydata.net>

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Hi,

I know that Arne already replied, but I wanted to have a reply on this
list as well:

On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 19:02 -0600, R. W. Rodolico wrote:
> I don't know if this is a bug, or if I just haven't found the correct
> page in the user manual.

No, this is not a bug.

> I built a router and set up red to be dhcp. Then, when I got to the
> client site, I realized they used PPPOE. I started setup, and changed
> the red connection to PPPOE, but nothing came up to give the username
> and password.

You will have to choose PPPoE in the setup utility, but the credentials
have to be configured on the web user interface. This is not very
intuitive.

> I saved the changes, then went into the web UI, and saw the place to
> choose the profile from an (empty) list, but found no way to create the
> PPPOE profile from there either.

Just select an empty profile, then type in what you need in the form
below and hit save.

> Is this a bug? Or is it just something that has to be manually done.

No, only a bad implementation. Apologies for that.

-Michael


  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-10 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-09  1:02 PPPOE R. W. Rodolico
2013-03-10 13:23 ` Michael Tremer [this message]
2013-03-10 20:35   ` PPPOE R. W. Rodolico

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