Hi guys!
I am looking for some PPPoE dialers.
I am settings up a new server with Fedora Core 5 and would like to find some dialers that works for the following:

• Windows client to Linux server dialup
• Linux client to Linux server dialup
• Dialup within the Linux gateway server

I have iBurst as my internet connection and my linux server is actually the internet gateway. I got it to work great under SuSE the last time but I had to use smpppd for connection operations and queries. Since Fedora Core doesn't have smpppd (since the 's' in smpppd stands for SuSE ) I know that I need an PPPoE dialer that can connect over a network to the internet.

Does anyone know what dialers out there can perform this? (it doesn't have to be the same one)

Thanks

Have you tried Roaring Penguin (rpppoe)?

Ok, I decided to go to Ubuntu instead and got the whole gateway thing to work (took a shortcut with FireStarter ) on the gateway router itself (connect & surf the net) and client Windows machines. So far only the gateway can create/close the internet connection.

I tried to use RASPPPOE in Windows to establish a connection to Linux which seems to work at first but then just "stalls" on "Authenticating Username & Password..." when I try to make an internet connection from my Windows machine to my Ubuntu gateway.

I guess RASPPPOE, just won't cut it or I probably done something wrong. Does anyone know of a way to connect to my Ubuntu Gateway with pppoe-server? Weither it be with RASPPPOE, a cool script, a working app, whatever! I just need something right now that can make & break connections from windows (for my dad who doesn't have a clue on how to work with Linux and I'm not at home always to be able to help make/break internet connections).

I guess Roaring Pengiun in Linux should be able to handle this task, shouldn't it. I have a SuSE client on my Windows machine aswell (tend to switch between Windows and Linux when necessary).

Thanks

Man, does no one know?
I sort of really need it.
Ok, does anyone maybe know of an alternative? Making/breaking internet connections from a client windows machine on a linux internet gateway?
Man I miss SuSE's smpppd
Can one maybe get smpppd to work on another Linux Distro?

A bit out of line from your question but have you looked at FreeBSD, or possible Mac OS X Tiger?

Both provide support to act as PPPoE servers. On a side note I will be posting in the next week or so BSD style licenced Mac OS Universal Mode iBurst driver for USB support.

Ok, cool. So can a windows machine detect that pppoe-server and use it to dial onto the internet, with the FreeBSD servers? I havn't seen or worked with FreeBSD before, how does it differ from linux, or is it just another Linux distro?

Also I am using the pppoe-server found with linux but it only works with linux dialers as far as I know.

Thanks coaic!

These two links will give you some idea about PPPoE/PPPoA/SLIP on FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...-and-slip.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SD+6.1-RELEASE
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SD+6.1-RELEASE
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...SD+6.1-RELEASE

I use FreeBSD as my internet gateway using OpenBSD PF http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html for firewall services. I find PF much easier to configure than IPTables for firewall/NAT/QoS and other gateway style services. I also like the way the FreeBSD Ports system works for adding third party applications. These links should help you get an idea of what PF can do:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO...ewalls-pf.html
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...conf&sektion=5
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?q...fctl&sektion=8

Thanks coiac and I appreciate your input but unfortunately I don't have FreeBSD right now on CD and I don't have the time to figure out how other distros work right now, so I went back to SuSE and was able to set up everything back in less than a day's time.
I'll wait for the end of the exams to experiment with other distros, etc.

Thanks anyway guys!