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Setting up PPPoE wired connection in Ubuntu 18.04.1 Bionic Beaver (Desktop Version)

Asked by A Raghuram

My ISP provides PPPoE connection with username, password and service name and binds my MAC Address. Since I have connected my router to the WAN, the MAC Address of the router has been bound in their server by them. My Desktop has been connected to the router and the network is working fine.

However, for the purpose of troubleshooting the network when it goes down, I need to connect directly to the computer. Therefore, I need to know how to configure a wired PPPoE connection directly in my computer. The network settings GUI does not allow setting up one.

Please guide me how to -

i) configure a PPPoE connection
ii) specify the username, password and service name, and
iii) clone my router's MAC address to my desktop

to be able to connect to the internet.

It would have been better if there was a GUI for this.

Looking forward to the HELP, as I am not quite conversant with Linux commands.

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A Raghuram (araghuramindia) said : 		#1

Please note the IP address, Gateway and DNS addresses are automatically obtained by their server.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#2

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A Raghuram (araghuramindia) said : 		#3

After referring to various community posts, I tried the following command:

nmcli connection add con-name "..." type pppoe username ... password ... service ... parent .... autoconnect no ifname "*" save yes

The pppoe connection gets created but vanishes from the "Settings -> Network" GUI under "Wired" category after some time and some times gets listed under "Bluetooth" category (under Network Settings) before vanishing.

Also, neither the command nor the GUI, allows me to specify a cloned MAC address.

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A Raghuram (araghuramindia) said : 		#4

This issue still continues ....

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dxsuai dhxiso (jsio377) said : 		#5

This is exactly the similar kind of problem which I faced some years ago as you can see here kindly help me how could I solve this issue from https://cncrouterhub.com/best-cnc-router/ project.

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