Re: [PATCH net-next v7] selftests: net: add tests for PPP

Qingfang Deng <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Apr 2026 20:04:23 +0800

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-ppp,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kselftest,org.kernel.vger.netdev
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2026 at 7:17 PM Paolo Abeni <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 4/2/26 12:13 PM, Qingfang Deng wrote:
>
> > What distro do you run CI tests on? On Ubuntu 24.04, "rp-pppoe.so" is
> > a symlink to "pppoe.so" in apt package "ppp". Maybe an additional
> > package is required for the distro you use, or I may work around that
> > by manually creating the symlink.
>
> It's fedora 43 with ppp and pppoe installed.
>
> ppp provides pppoe.so, and AFAICS nothink provides rp-pppoe.so, and the
> pppoe-server is looking for a non existing /etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so
> plugin.
>
> Before I mess with the nipa testbed, could you please double check that
>
> ln -n /usr/lib64/pppd/2.5.1/pppoe.so /etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so
>
> should solve?

Hard links will also work.
Alternatively, if your rp-pppoe version is 4.0, you can use the new
option `-g` to specify the full path of the pppoe.so plugin.

Regards,
Qingfang