The FreeBSD Diary

There are many good articles on how to get your DSL set up with PPPoE.

Since writing this article, the FreeBSD Handbook covers this topic rather well so perhaps you should read that first.

These links appear to work for most people. However, I would never get logged on properly, and was continually plagued by a Attempting to Redial message by the pppd.

The solution was simple. In addition to using the Sympatico solution, I added

ifconfig_rl0="inet 0.0.0.0 mtu 1492"

to the /etc/rc.conf file solved everything. (where rl0 was my NIC)

You may or may not experience a message from the kernel saying:

module_register: module netgraph already exists!
linker_file_sysinit "netgraph.ko" failed to register! 17

but everything should work without a problem anyway.

The above netgraph message can be eliminated by adding the following to your kernel file, eliminating the need to load the netgraph ether module, which you will need for pppoe to function anyway.

NETGRAPH_ETHER

In other words, these are the options that you will need to obviate the need to load any modules.

options NETGRAPH
options NETGRAPH_ETHER
options NETGRAPH_PPPOE
options NETGRAPH_SOCKET

For details on compiling a kernel, read Configuring the FreeBSD Kernel section of the FreeBSD handbook.  Please pay special attention to the Building and Installing a Custom Kernel section.