[afnog] ppp.conf help

[Jacques Marneweck]

Alan Levin wrote:

Hi Alan

Copy the ppp.conf you currently use to ppp.conf.adsl1and ppp.conf.adsl2
for example.  One could then cp /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.adsl2
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf and restart the userland ppp afterwards.  One could in
theory use a script to copy based on which username already exists in
/etc/ppp/ppp.conf.  The chgrep command in /usr/ports/sysutils/chgrep is
useful for finding text and replacing it:

chgrep oldusername newusername /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
chgrep oldpassword newpassword /etc/ppp/ppp.conf

I would hook up a menu (using pdmenu) for your wife's usage.  Something
like Change ADSL Username which executes a script via sudo behind the
scenes.

Or one can use pppctl ("set server /var/run/ppp/loop-iburst") and use
pppctl to connect to /var/run/ppp/loop-iburst or whatever you called
that socket and issue commands to change username, password, etc.

Regards
--jm
> Hi,
>
> I want to configure my pppoe connection (using my home freebsd  
> gateway) to try a second username when the first account caps. (or  
> teach my wife how to edit ppp.conf herself, but this is less ideal  
> for a many reasons). There are a few convoluted ways I considered but  
> I'm looking for something simple. I've read userppp in the handbook,  
> and I'm sufficiently incapable.
>
> This is my ppp.conf file...
>
> pppoe:
>
>         set device PPPoE:fxp0
>         set mru 1492
>         set mtu 1492
>         set speed sync
>         enable lqr
>         set lqrperiod 5
>         set cd 5
>         set dial
>         set login
>         set timeout 0
>         set authname DSL***@****.net
>         set authkey ***
>         set ifaddr 172.16.0.1/0 172.16.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
>         add default HISADDR
>         enable dns
>
> Anyone know the elegant solution?
>
> cheers,
>
> aLan
>
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