Thanks, Arne and Michael. It was just lack of searching on my part, I guess. Going into "Dialup" was a mental block for me.
Not sure I agree with the "bad implementation" statement. The cli "setup" executable is supposed to be for very basic "get the thing to work" so you can get to the Web UI, as far as I see. In order to add this functionality to the cli, whole screens would have to be added that are more easily handled through the Web UI, so I see no reason to say it is bad design. The only thing I'd consider doing is documenting it with a little note under the installation instructions, something like:
--------- NOTE: if you choose PPPOE, be sure to log into the WebUI after installation and set up a profile under the Dialup menu on the System page ---------
I would also recommend on http://wiki.ipfire.org/en/configuration/start changing the description of Dialup:
--------- It is only active if a dial up or DSL PPPOE connection is used. Defines parameters for those connections. ---------
If that is ok with everyone, I'll do it? At least the English version (I can say about three words in German, and probably would misspell them).
Rod
On 03/10/2013 08:23 AM, Michael Tremer wrote:
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