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== The Basics ==
 
You can use a Linux box in place of a PPPoE-capable router. Why would you want to do this?
 
* You're already running a Linux box, and you don't see any point in powering a router as well
* You want fine control over packets
* You have a PPPoE router but it doesn't do everything you want
 
== Debian/squeeze and /wheezy ==
 
This is what RogerBW is using. It'll probably be much the same on other Linuxen. The basic recipe came from [http://www.aa-asterisk.org.uk/index.php/Connecting_to_AAISP_using_PPPoE].
 
You will have two ethernet interfaces - one for your internal network (let's assume that's eth1), one for connection to the BT modem (eth0). You will be running PPPoE over the external interface, creating a new interface that actually passes packets.
 
=== Setup ===
 
* Install ppp, pppoe and iproute.
 
* Edit /etc/ppp/peers/aaisp to include:
 
<pre>
user mylogin@a.1 <----- your AAISP login
plugin rp-pppoe.so
eth0 <----- The ethernet interface to run PPPoE on
noipdefault
defaultroute
#usepeerdns <----- uncomment this if you want resolv.conf to be set up automatically
hide-password
lcp-echo-interval 1 <---- this is how often the LCP echo packets get sent to AAISP, in seconds.
lcp-echo-failure 10 <---- this is how many LCP echo failures before the ppp daemon quits
connect /bin/true
noauth
persist
maxfail 0 <---- redial forever until your modem regains sync else default is 10x or N times if you enter N
#holdoff 120 <---- this will cause pppd to dial once every 2 mins else default is 0 sec
mtu 1492
noaccomp
default-asyncmap
+ipv6
ipv6cp-use-ipaddr
</pre>
 
* Edit /etc/ppp/chap-secrets to include this line, consisting of three tab-separated words. The first entry is your AAISP router login, the second is an asterisk, and the third is your AAISP router password. For example:
 
<pre>
mylogin@a.1 * pa$$w0rd
</pre>
 
* Create /etc/ppp/ipv6-up.d/0000defaultroute. In it place the following shell script:
 
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
/sbin/ip -6 route add default dev $1
</pre>
 
* chmod it 755.
 
=== Testing ===
 
Run as root: pppoe -A
 
This should show something like this:
 
<pre>Access-Concentrator: BT_ADSL
Got a cookie: 6e c5 4a dd 1e c0 d6 b6 fe b4 4b 23 38 8f 63 58
AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:90:1a:40:f2:9f
--------------------------------------------------
</pre>
 
To start your PPPoE session just type
<pre>pon aaisp</pre>
and to stop it running
<pre>poff aaisp</pre>
 
You can check connectivity with a cron job, and add a stanza to /etc/network/interfaces to connect at boot.
 
=== Extra configuration ===
 
You will find at this point that most web sites work, but some few don't - they just freeze on loading or during initial SSL negotiation. This is because they are blocking ICMP, which is ''stupid'' - in part because they are then unable to indicate or respond to the need to fragment large packets. You can get round it by limiting the maximum packet size for TCP: set TCPfix on your clueless control panel, or on the router:
 
<pre>
iptables -t mangle -F FORWARD
iptables -t mangle -A FORWARD -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1452
</pre>
 
== IPv6 ==
 
* Assign your /64 to the ''inside'' interface of your router - eth1 in this example.
 
<pre>
ifconfig eth1 inet6 add 2001:8b0:blah/64
</pre>
 
* Enable ipv6 forwarding by adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:
 
<pre>
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
</pre>
 
* If you don't want to reboot, also push these values into /proc/sys/etc.:
 
<pre>
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/forwarding
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/forwarding
</pre>
 
In theory, "default" should apply to all interfaces created later, while "all" should apply to all interfaces that exist now. This doesn't always seem to be the case.
 
== Full startup sequence ==
 
<pre>
ifconfig eth1 up
pon aaisp
</pre>
 
== PPP ==
 
*There's a bug in 2.6.36, 2.6.36.1, 2.6.36.2 that can cause a kernel panic when the link goes down ([http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=55c95e738da85373965cb03b4f975d0fd559865b 55c95e73], fixed in [http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2a27a03d3a891e87ca33d27a858b4db734a4cbab 2a27a03d])
 
*IP-over-LCP patches (receive only):
**[httphttps://proximasa.lp0me.euuk/~simonpub/aaisppatches/linux/ip-over-lcp_2.6.35.4.patch 2.6.35.4]
**[httphttps://proximasa.lp0me.euuk/~simonpub/aaisppatches/linux/ip-over-lcp_3.2.0-rc5.patch 3.2.0-rc5]
 
=== PPPoE ===
**pppd 2.4.6 is required for RFC 4638 support ([http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commit;h=fd1dcdf758418f040da3ed801ab001b5e46854e7 this is in git] but not yet released)
 
== PPP Not coming back after a blip ==
[[Category:Linux]][[Category:Configuring]][[Category:ADSL]]
This was reported in IRC on Feb 6th 2011. If you get people saying their line didn't come back or their linux box crashed (as in kernel oopsed) after a blip, turns out there's a bug in the kernel pppoe code for 2.6.36 which has been hitting me. some kind of double free in the disconnect code causes a kernel panic. there's a patch here: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/12/3/4654538 which seems to work for me
 
 
[[Category:3rd Party Routers|Linux]]
 
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