Hope that works. You might have to use a converter if it's expecting hexadecimals. For Trooli my host-uniq is a 22 character string (only using numerics) so try the string as is first and then if that fails use an online hex converter like this one

hex-converter

O.oo i totally missed that update from them! Thank you. Its not as if i have been pestering them as we use them all over the place in our network..

Well, that will be on download tonight and played with so i will let you know!

Edited by deleted (Thu 17-Feb-22 17:27:29)

In reply to a post by BritishDrakula:

Question: Can you please help me to get the full output ising the top command? Is there anyway to extract the full the details without any restrictions on number of columns?

The best way is to first find the process ID (PID) of the pppd command so typically

ps ax |grep pppd

Then look under /proc, so if the PID is 10023

cat -v /proc/10023/cmdline

Though you will loose all the spaces between the options they will be shown as ^@ but it won't be truncated.

Basically the likes of top and ps process the contents of /proc and pretty print it for you. The cmdline files is the command line as a series of null terminated strings so the -v option to cat to escape unprintable characters is needed.

Most of these systems are running with BusyBox so you will probably need to replace cat with catv which does the same thing as "cat -v". I am also unsure off the top of my head what options the BusyBox version of ps supports.

All that said, that looks like a complete command line you have put in there. Might be worth checking the directory /etc/ppp/options, and the file /root/.ppprc for any additional options not specified on the command line.

UPDATE:

Installed 7.2RC2. built the interface and dropped in the edited command.

/interface/pppoe-client/set INT NAME host-uniq="VALUE"

I had been cloning the MAC so carried that over to the RB as well:

/interface ethernet set ether1 mac-address="VALUE"

Remove everything other than CHAP on the PPPoE Client and your off to the races!


Updated my L2TP tunnel back to whom i work for for my IP space, edited the route for that to the new PPPoE interface as i don't take default on that and currently sat in my attic with cold hands posting this!

I can confirm it all works and my thanks go to tvrulesme for pointing out the firmware update! I owe you a beer kind sir.

Ah that is fantastic news. Thanks so much for confirming. No, I owe you a beer. Can now happily buy the router I wanted knowing this is possible

Great stuff.

Did you happen to check if the MAC cloning was needed for the interface to come up or did it work with the minimum of PPPoE username, password and host-uniq values?

Hey Pheasant,

To be honest i have cloned it from day 1 just to try and stay under the radar with all this (just encase lol)

I don't think its required, but should they have a list of MACs attached to there gateways somewhere, i would like mine to blend in

You would have thought that users that can go to these lengths and technical understanding deserve to use there own router and don't really pose any issues. (Well thats my view anyways)

I didn't think about the MAC cloning and so didn't do it and mine is working without so definitely not needed but a nice idea if you want to.

Thanks for the update. Good to know that it works with any MAC address.

I don’t know enough (ok anything) about the host-uniq field without searching to educate myself, but I had this creeping thought that they might be using both MAC and host-uniq fields for authentication beyond PPPoE username and password. Simpler is better.

Good luck with it all.

Hi again. I got it turned on live today. Just had a quick look and I change find my user name and password with the top command but no where can I find the host uniq string anywhere, any ideas at all?

Update.

Tired it with out using the uniq host part. So just user and PW word and now have it up and running on my ASUS RT-AC86U

Still would like to know how to find the host part of anyone has any ideas?

Edited by vwsplity (Thu 03-Mar-22 20:08:52)