setting up PPPoE on fedora with recent network tools

[Patrick Mansfield]

Hi -

Anyone know where to find details setting up and using a PPPoE client on fedora with
current network tools?

I used nm-connection-editor to add one, but haven't figured out how to actually bring
it up nor if it's actually working.

I installed rp-pppoe, I'm not sure if it's needed or if it's integrated with NM.

-- Patrick

[Ed Greshko]

On 2020-07-04 04:19, Patrick Mansfield via users wrote:
> Anyone know where to find details setting up and using a PPPoE client on fedora with
> current network tools?
>
> I used nm-connection-editor to add one, but haven't figured out how to actually bring
> it up nor if it's actually working.
>
> I installed rp-pppoe, I'm not sure if it's needed or if it's integrated with NM.

Well, if you've set it up then you should be able see it in the list when you issue

nmcli connection

The details will be shown if you do...

nmcli connection show name-of-connection

And then....

nmcli connection up

will attempt to bring up the connection.  The results should be displayed and you can check the
journal for any error messages.

[Patrick Mansfield]

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 10:19:32AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-07-04 04:19, Patrick Mansfield via users wrote:
> > Anyone know where to find details setting up and using a PPPoE client on fedora with
> > current network tools?
> >
> > I used nm-connection-editor to add one, but haven't figured out how to actually bring
> > it up nor if it's actually working.
> >
> > I installed rp-pppoe, I'm not sure if it's needed or if it's integrated with NM.
>
> Well, if you've set it up then you should be able see it in the list when you issue
>
> nmcli connection
>
> The details will be shown if you do...
>
> nmcli connection show name-of-connection
>
> And then....
>
> nmcli connection up
>
> will attempt to bring up the connection.� The results should be displayed and you can check the
> journal for any error messages.

Ah, thanks: I had tried to bring it up using nmcli, but missed this error:

Jul 04 10:53:23 umbrella NetworkManager[1183]: <warn>  [1593885203.4348] device (wan0): PPPoE failed to start: the PPP plugin /usr/lib64/NetworkManager/1.20.12-1.fc31/libnm-ppp-plugin.so is not installed

I installed it:

dnf install NetworkManager-ppp

And was able to get PPPoE working.

I don't think rp-pppoe is needed, but have left it installed for now.

PITA as I'm trying to get rid of my combined modem router (actiontech C3000A) with
new Centurylink internet service, and I can't modify the modem settings once I put
it in bridge mode - it has to be physically reset if I want to change anything, like
put it back to PPPoE mode, or to disable the VLAN.

-- Patrick