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Topic: Asus WL-500gp + whiterussian 0.9 + PPPOE

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Hi everybody,

I have Whiterussian 0.9 installed on my WL - 500gp.
WLAN and LAN is working fine,
but i don't get PPPOE to work.

The wiki-entry about PPPOE for the WL-500gp is a bit confusing.
There are several methods for several firmware-versions (rc5, rc6).
But what about 0.9?
It should supposedly work without NVRAM changes.

I had no success by configuring PPPOE via webif,
so I tried all of the methods for rc5 and rc6, without success, too.


I hope some of you can tell me, what i'm doing wrong.


Here are my settings and my logs for the default configuration of the router:
btw, why does pppd try to set MTU up to 1500?


root@OpenWrt:~# nvram show | grep ppp
size: 2015 bytes (30753 left)
ppp_username=#username
ppp_redialperiod=30
wan_proto=pppoe
pppoe_ifname=
wan_ifname=ppp0
ppp_mtu=1492
pppoe_ifnames=
root@OpenWrt:~# nvram show | grep wan
size: 2015 bytes (30753 left)
wan_device=vlan1
wan_vport=4
wan_proto=pppoe
wan_ifnames=vlan1
wandevs=et0
wan_ifname=ppp0
wan_hostname=airbase

modem not connected:

Jan  1 00:11:23 (none) kern.info pppd[2032]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Jan  1 00:11:23 (none) kern.notice pppd[2032]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan  1 00:11:38 (none) kern.warn pppd[2032]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Jan  1 00:11:38 (none) kern.err pppd[2032]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Jan  1 00:11:38 (none) kern.info pppd[2032]: Exit.

modem connected (leds of the modem indicates that everthing is ok):

Jan  1 00:11:38 (none) kern.info pppd[2043]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Jan  1 00:11:38 (none) kern.notice pppd[2043]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
Jan  1 00:11:43 (none) kern.info pppd[2043]: PPP session is 7530
Jan  1 00:11:43 (none) kern.info pppd[2043]: Using interface ppp0
Jan  1 00:11:43 (none) kern.notice pppd[2043]: Connect: ppp0 <--> vlan1
Jan  1 00:11:43 (none) kern.warn pppd[2043]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Jan  1 00:11:43 (none) kern.warn pppd[2043]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Jan  1 00:11:44 (none) kern.notice pppd[2043]: peer from calling number 00:90:1A:41:65:57 authorized
Jan  1 00:11:44 (none) kern.info pppd[2043]: LCP terminated by peer
Jan  1 00:11:44 (none) kern.warn pppd[2043]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Jan  1 00:11:44 (none) kern.warn pppd[2043]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Jan  1 00:11:47 (none) kern.notice pppd[2043]: Connection terminated.
Jan  1 00:11:47 (none) kern.notice pppd[2043]: Modem hangup
Jan  1 00:11:47 (none) kern.info pppd[2043]: Exit.

(Last edited by upssy on 24 Mar 2007, 21:47)

I have an additional "pppoe_ifname=vlan1", don't know if that is needed tho.

coredump wrote:

I have an additional "pppoe_ifname=vlan1", don't know if that is needed tho.

thanks for your reply.
i tried that, but that doesn't make it work.

any other suggestions?

Problem solved!

I flashed the router with the original asus-firmware and set it up via web-interface.
After that i flashed the router again with the openwrt-firmware.
Some nvram-settings like the wl_ssid etc. have been adopted.

Now, pppoe works out of the box.

The discussion might have continued from here.