How to setup a PPPoE Server?

Michelle Konzack

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Mar 20, 2009, 1:40:09 PM3/20/09

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Hello,

For my network (there will be over 4000 customers) I need PPPoE
authentification. The customer database is a PostgreSQL.

Does someone know how to setup such network?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
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24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
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Johannes Wiedersich

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Mar 20, 2009, 2:40:06 PM3/20/09

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Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For my network (there will be over 4000 customers) I need PPPoE
> authentification. The customer database is a PostgreSQL.
>
> Does someone know how to setup such network?

Uncle Google seems to offer some advice on 'pppoe server
authentification'. First hit is [1].

Cheers,
Johannes

[1] http://www.freeantennas.com/PPPoE-Server-HOWTO.html

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Michelle Konzack

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Mar 20, 2009, 2:50:13 PM3/20/09

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Thanks Johannes,

Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the
"Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian...

Do you know why?

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Johannes Wiedersich

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Mar 20, 2009, 3:40:17 PM3/20/09

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Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the
> "Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian...
>
> Do you know why?

No.

FWIW, on my system:

20:20:44-johannes@e13-v21:~$ man -k pppoe
[...]
pppoe-server (8) - user-space PPPoE server
[...]
20:20:48-johannes@e13-v21:~$ dpkg -S pppoe-server
pppoe: /usr/sbin/pppoe-server
pppoe: /usr/share/man/man8/pppoe-server.8.gz

Just install pppoe and look at its documentation.

Google 'pppoe server debian' found me this interesting link;

http://neworder.box.sk/newsread.php?newsid=18797

(Disclaimer: I have never set up a pppoe server myself.)

Cheers,
Johannes

Tzafrir Cohen

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Mar 21, 2009, 10:00:13 PM3/21/09

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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 07:43:50PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Thanks Johannes,
>
> Hmmm, now I have searched again the Debian Packages and it seems, the
> "Roaring Penguin PPPoE server software" is not in Debian...
>
> Do you know why?

Because the description of the package pppoe is lacking.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/pppoe

As you can see, the source package is rp-pppoe.

Michelle Konzack

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Mar 22, 2009, 8:10:16 AM3/22/09

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Good morning Tzafrir,

Am 2009-03-22 01:51:29, schrieb Tzafrir Cohen:
> Because the description of the package pppoe is lacking.
>
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/pppoe
>
> As you can see, the source package is rp-pppoe.

I think, I file a bugreport...

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