On 11/10/07, Daniel Melameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/07, Jacob Yocom-Piatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mitja Mu>enih wrote: > > > I just found the hard way that my old hostname.pppoe0 file which used to > > > work under 4.1 causes a spectacular failure on 4.2. > > > > > > # sh /etc/netstart pppoe0 > > > ifconfig: SIOCSIFGENERIC(SPPPIOSDEFS): Device busy > > > > > > The reason turned out to be a whitespace character after the \ sign in > > > hostname.pppoe0. > > > > > > Simplest way to recreate is to take the example from man and add a > > > whitespace at the end of the first or second line after \. > > > > > > # cat hostname.pppoe0 > > > inet 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 NONE \ > > > pppoedev vr2 authproto chap \ > > > authname 'xxxx' authkey 'yyyy' up > > > dest 0.0.0.1 > > > > > > Can somebody verify this? All my pppoe machines are remote. > > > > can verify that i had similar problems: updated to 4.2-release from 4.1 > > on i386 with working hostname.pppoe0; read manpage, changed format > > slightly to the one you show above; all attempts at getting the > > interface to come up did not work, however, on reboot pppoe0 came up and > > is working; have not fiddled since > > > > based on the troubles i had, i would not even consider upgrading a > > remote machine that uses pppoe until i could get this to work cleanly on > > a local machine. maybe pre-empting the change in hostname.pppoe syntax > > could do it, not sure. still have yet to upgrade my pppoe machines at > > work, can try this tomorrow and report back. > > Had a similar issue when upgrading from 4.1--syntax changed--but I > have no whitespace issue. I simply updated hostname.pppoe0 per the > man page and it works like it did before--but now I actually see the > gateway output in ifconfig pppoe0.
Thought it might make sense to note this in the Upgrade Guide--so if nick@ is interested: Index: upgrade42.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/upgrade42.html,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -r1.24 upgrade42.html --- upgrade42.html 1 Nov 2007 02:40:20 -0000 1.24 +++ upgrade42.html 11 Nov 2007 05:56:07 -0000 @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ <li><a href="#dedc">[alpha Only] Some de(4) NICs will become dc(4)</a> <li><a href="#acpi">[i386 Only] apm(4) takes precedence over acpi(4)</a> <li><a href="#rc.conf">rc.conf</a> + <li><a href="#pppoe">pppoe(4) configuration changes</a> <li><a href="#kern">Modified kernel</a> </ul> <li><a href="#upgrade">The upgrade process</a> @@ -310,6 +311,16 @@ Otherwise, pull your existing <tt>rc.conf</tt> into the top of your existing <tt>rc.conf.local</tt> file <i>and remove the last line</i> before doing the rest of this process. + +<p> +<a name="pppoe"></a> +<li><b>pppoe(4) configuration changes:</b><br> +The configuration of PPPoE has changed slightly. Please see +<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pppoe&apropos=0&sektion=4&; +manpath=OpenBSD+4.2&arch=i386"> +pppoe(4)</a> for details, but normal scenarios will require a couple of +changes to the PPPoE configuration file, typically +<tt>/etc/hostname.pppoe0</tt>, or the PPPoE connection will not work. <p> <a name="kern"></a>
