How to configure PPPoE authentication on the Ethernet switch of a Cisco877

[joepena2012]

Hi all,

i have a cisco 877 for Internet Access.

This router should negotiate it's IP via PPPOE on one of the Ethernet interfaces.

Now to my question:

1. is it possible to configure PPPoE in one of the switching interfaces?

2. If yes, how do we configure a dialer profile to act on one of the switching interfaces fa0

3. What is wrong, if the following message occurs:

Feb 11 13:44:41.478: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:45.397: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:46.441: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:50.104: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:50.872: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:54.495: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set
Feb 11 13:44:55.742: Di1 DDR: Cannot place call, no dialer string set

here the config:

interface Vlan99
description Internet Access
no ip address
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly
crypto map FESTO
!
interface Dialer1
mtu 1492
ip address negotiated
ip nat outside
ip virtual-reassembly
encapsulation ppp
dialer pool 1
dialer-group 1
ppp authentication pap chap callin
ppp chap hostname cnx-XXXXXXXXXX@cetus
ppp chap password 0 XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
ppp pap sent-username cnx-XXXXXXXXXXX@cetus password 0 XXXXXXXXXXX
crypto map FESTO

!

interface FastEthernet0
description Internet Access
switchport access vlan 99
pppoe enable group global
pppoe-client dial-pool-number 1

[paolo bevilacqua]

What prevents you from connecting the ADSL interface instead ?

[joepena2012]

:-) To be honest, i don't know. I'm sitting in germany, and the 877 is in VE. The guys there assuming that the ATM would not work

[paolo bevilacqua · Accepted solution]

Will work, just get to know VPI/VCI and do a regular PPPoE config.

Worst case, will need an ADSL upggrade.

Note in most cases, where PPPoE works also PPPoA do, that lets you use the full MTU of 1500.