Running 2 PPPoE connections connecting to the same PPPoE server.
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
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Hi
I've two ADSL connections from the same ISP. I'm currently using Ubuntu
Linux (Dapper/AMD64) to distribute internet traffic from those two ADSL
connections in my small network. This works fine with no problems. I use
load balancing[1] available in Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
HOWTO. To connect to my ISP, I've to initiate PPPoE connection from server.
Now, I've a FreeBSD (7.0-RELEASE-BETA3/AMD64) box, on which I'm thinking to
transfer this setup. When I dial 1st PPPoE connection, it succeeds. When I
dial 2nd PPPoE connection, it terminates with following error:
- ---->8---->8----
ppp[1583]: tun1: Warning: iface add: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR, x.x.x.x -> a.a.a.a):
File exists
ppp[1583]: tun1: Error: ipcp_InterfaceUp: unable to set ip address
- ----8<----8<----
The error is probably due to same gateway (a.a.a.a) assigned to both PPPoE
connections by the PPPoE server. Am I correct ?
And is there any other way, I can have this configuration ?
References:
[1] - http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298
TIA
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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chris petrik
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've two ADSL connections from the same ISP. I'm currently using Ubuntu
> Linux (Dapper/AMD64) to distribute internet traffic from those two ADSL
> connections in my small network. This works fine with no problems. I use
> load balancing[1] available in Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
> HOWTO. To connect to my ISP, I've to initiate PPPoE connection from server.
>
> Now, I've a FreeBSD (7.0-RELEASE-BETA3/AMD64) box, on which I'm thinking to
> transfer this setup. When I dial 1st PPPoE connection, it succeeds. When I
> dial 2nd PPPoE connection, it terminates with following error:
>
> ---->8---->8----
> ppp[1583]: tun1: Warning: iface add: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR, x.x.x.x -> a.a.a.a):
> File exists
> ppp[1583]: tun1: Error: ipcp_InterfaceUp: unable to set ip address
> ----8<----8<----
>
> The error is probably due to same gateway (a.a.a.a) assigned to both PPPoE
> connections by the PPPoE server. Am I correct ?
>
> And is there any other way, I can have this configuration ?
>
> References:
> [1] - http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298
>
> TIA
Hello,
This can be changed in the ppp conf, I would think that making two
seperate conf files and loading each one, then using routed to route the
two together. Bit ugly but would work. Reading the docs i'm sure you can
have two seperate nets working as one, but how pppd works is you need to
compile in some netgraph modules and redo the conf so it tends to listen
on a ethernet card rather a modem com port. Think you know this
Hope this helps some.
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
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chris petrik wrote:
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> Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
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>> ---->8---->8----
>> ppp[1583]: tun1: Warning: iface add: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR, x.x.x.x ->
>> a.a.a.a): File exists
>> ppp[1583]: tun1: Error: ipcp_InterfaceUp: unable to set ip address
>> ----8<----8<----
>>
>> The error is probably due to same gateway (a.a.a.a) assigned to both
>> PPPoE connections by the PPPoE server. Am I correct ?
>>
>> And is there any other way, I can have this configuration ?
>>
>> References:
>> [1] - http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298
>>
>> TIA
> Hello,
> This can be changed in the ppp conf, I would think that making two
> seperate conf files and loading each one, then using routed to route the
> two together. Bit ugly but would work. Reading the docs i'm sure you can
> have two seperate nets working as one, but how pppd works is you need to
> compile in some netgraph modules and redo the conf so it tends to listen
> on a ethernet card rather a modem com port. Think you know this
Thanks for the reply, but tell me one thing. If I'm not able to up my 2nd
PPPoE interface (which will be tun1) which means no 2nd route, then what'll
be the use of using routed.
I've already mentioned this why I'm not able to dial another pppoe
connection, because gateway assinged to me in both PPPoE connection is
same.
>
> Hope this helps some.
Thanks
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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल http://wahjava.wordpress.com/
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Jason Bourne
[snip]
>>> ---->8---->8----
>>> ppp[1583]: tun1: Warning: iface add: ioctl(SIOCAIFADDR, x.x.x.x ->
>>> a.a.a.a): File exists
>>> ppp[1583]: tun1: Error: ipcp_InterfaceUp: unable to set ip address
>>> ----8<----8<----
>>>
>>> The error is probably due to same gateway (a.a.a.a) assigned to both
>>> PPPoE connections by the PPPoE server. Am I correct ?
>>>
>>> And is there any other way, I can have this configuration ?
>>>
>>> References:
>>> [1] - http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html#AEN298
>>>
>>> TIA
>> Hello,
>> This can be changed in the ppp conf, I would think that making two
>> seperate conf files and loading each one, then using routed to route the
>> two together. Bit ugly but would work. Reading the docs i'm sure you can
>> have two seperate nets working as one, but how pppd works is you need to
>> compile in some netgraph modules and redo the conf so it tends to listen
>> on a ethernet card rather a modem com port. Think you know this
>
> Thanks for the reply, but tell me one thing. If I'm not able to up my 2nd
> PPPoE interface (which will be tun1) which means no 2nd route, then
> what'll be the use of using routed.
routed is for RIP traffic with LAN/WAN routers. If you're not exchanging RIP
you don't need it.
> I've already mentioned this why I'm not able to dial another pppoe
> connection, because gateway assinged to me in both PPPoE connection is
> same.
>
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I don't have any recent direct experience with it but you may want to
investigate mpd. IIRC it was the preferred solution with regard to the
multiple interface PPPoE route. YMMV. See /usr/ports/net either mpd4 or
mpd5.
-Jason
Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
[snipped]
> I don't have any recent direct experience with it but you may want to
> investigate mpd. IIRC it was the preferred solution with regard to the
> multiple interface PPPoE route. YMMV. See /usr/ports/net either mpd4 or
> mpd5.
Tried mpd, but its also not able to add a route via same gateway for
second connection. But I find a hack. And that will be so simple, provided
one has knows how PPP works, and routing via gateway works.
In PPP, there is no need of ARP, since both endpoints know about each
other at the time of PPP connection negotiation. And in routing via
gateway, no packet is send every to gateway's IP address, instead
packets are sent to its link-layer address. So, if one is able to change
IP address of the remote endpoint of the next PPP connection, OS will be
happy to add a route for that PPP connection also, and changing IP address
of remote endpoint of the PPP connection doesn't had any effect on PPP
connection, since that IP address is never going to be used in destination
packets (unless one really wants to send packets destined to the gateway).
So after mpd is running with 2 PPPoE connections (ng0 and ng1), with ng0
assigned an IPv4 address but ng1 is not, since OS doesn't allow adding
2 routes via same gateway, so ng1 is simply idle. So what I did is
manually set parameters of ng1 with 'ifconfig', and set IP address
of 'remote endpoint' to a another IP of ISPs network. And this worked
fine.
Now all I need to do is to load-balance over these connections.
>
> -Jason
I hope my above reasoning is correct, in case its not please point me
where I'm wrong.
Thanks for the points. TIA for any corrections.