Rick Low wrote:

> tell mpd to get the DNS addresses. All I know about mpd I learned in the
> last hour, but I hacked your /etc/inc/interfaces.inc to include the
> following two lines in wan_pppoe_configure() where you generate mpd.conf:
> 
>     set ipcp enable req-pri-dns
>     set ipcp enable req-sec-dns
> 
> Now when the link comes up, the log shows something better:

Right, that was part of the problem (but not all) - thanks! I have to 
admit that I really didn't consider this a serious issue (my ADSL 
provider does not assign any DNS servers via PPPoE, even when requested 
explicitly with those options), so I didn't try much at all.

> Unfortunately it still doesn't work and I wasn't able to figure out why.

That's an easy one: you'll have to decrement all the $x variables in 
ppp-linkup by one because the MPD manual seems to be wrong about the 
parameters passed to the up-script - here's what it says:

script interface inet local-ip remote-ip authname [ dns1 server-ip ] [ 
dns2 server-ip ]

According to your log entry, the authname parameter is missing, so 
that's probably why it didn't work. Could you check if this is indeed 
the case and tell me so I can fix it for the next version?

Thanks,

Manuel