Redhat 8.0 - PPPOE client
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### Kernel 2.4.31 & mppe-mppc patch
    
    # cd /usr/src
    # wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.31.tar.bz2
    # tar -jxvf linux-2.4.31.tar.bz2
    # cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.31
    # cp /boot/config-2.4.18-14 .config
    # make oldconfig
    # wget http://mppe-mppc.alphacron.de/linux-2.4.31-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch.gz
    # zcat linux-2.4.31-mppe-mppc-1.3.patch.gz | patch -p1
    # make menuconfig
    
        Processor type and features ---> 386
    
        File systems ---> <*> Ext3 journalling file system support
    
        Network device support --->
                 Microsoft PPP compression/encryption (MPPC/MPPE)
                 PPP BSD-Compress compression
                 PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)
    
        Cryptographic options --->
                 SHA1 digest algorithm
                 ARC4 cipher algorithm
    
    # make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install && make install
    # cd /usr/src
    # ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.4.31 linux
    # vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
    
        default=0
    
    # vi /etc/modules.conf
    
        alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe_mppc
        alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
        alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
        alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
        alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
        alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
        alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
        alias net-pf-47 ip_gre
    
    # reboot
    # modprobe ppp-compress-18
    
    
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### PPPD 2.4.3
    
    # rpm -e ppp
    # cd /usr/src/
    # wget http://samba.org/ftp/ppp/ppp-2.4.3.tar.gz
    # tar -zxvf ppp-2.4.3.tar.gz
    # cd /usr/src/ppp-2.4.3
    # wget http://mppe-mppc.alphacron.de/ppp-2.4.3-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz
    # zcat ppp-2.4.3-mppe-mppc-1.1.patch.gz | patch -p1
    # ./configure
    # make
    # make install
    # strings `which pppd` | grep -i mppe | wc --lines
    
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### RP-PPPOE 3.8
    
    # cd /usr/src
    # wget http://www.roaringpenguin.com/files/download/rp-pppoe-3.8.tar.gz
    # tar -zxvf rp-pppoe-3.8.tar.gz
    # cd /usr/src/rp-pppoe-3.8
    # ./go
      (answer to questions)
    # vi /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
    
        PPPD_EXTRA="noccp persist maxfail 0"
    
    # chkconfig --level 2345 pppoe off
    # ntsysv
      (enable pppoe )
    # pppoe-start
    
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### NAT & ip forwarding
    
    # vi /etc/rc.local
    
        echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
        iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE
        modprobe ip_nat_ftp
        modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp
    
    # reboot
    
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_BY: Pejman Moghadam_  
_TAG: pppoe-client_  
_DATE: 2007-09-25 14:58:19_