Support pppoe settings in the network page.

[PupilTong]

Page: Network

Hi, I'm trying to use ubuntu as my family router. I found that cockpit doesn't have a pppoe settings in the network page. I'm wondering if it's possible to add this feature?

As well as firewall settings(iptables, ufw...) and even dnsmasq settings( for dns server and dhcp server)

Thanks!

[gil-obradors]

Hi! I'm working on, so I share the work done so far For write a minium base I have tested a PoC with Python, pppoe object represents the connection argument for dbus, so We need a Wizard to generate and send it:

import uuid
from pydbus import SystemBus, Variant

bus = SystemBus()
remote_object = bus.get("org.freedesktop.NetworkManager",
                        "/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings")
pppoe = {"connection": {'id': Variant('s', "PPPoE Client"),
                        'interface-name': Variant('s', "pppo34"),
                        'type': Variant('s', 'pppoe'),
                        'uuid': Variant('s', str(uuid.uuid4()))},
         'ppp': {'lcp-echo-failure': Variant('u', 5),
                 'lcp-echo-interval': Variant('u', 30)},
         'pppoe': {'password': Variant('s', 'gilitopassword'),
                   'username': Variant('s', 'gilito-user'),
                   'parent': Variant('s', 'eno2')
                   },
         'ipv4': {'method': Variant('s', 'auto')}
         }

remote_object.AddConnection(pppoe)

Other advanced options nm-connection-edit are:

• The last is easy because is the same for all king of interface
• I skipped proxy tab.

Next steeps:

• HTML layout
• Create basic Wizard for minimum connection object
• Testing

[marusak]

@gil-obradors any updates on this?

[gil-obradors]

Hi! I'm not currently working on I was centered on Wireguard but I found an architectural problem that greatly complicates the process and I stopped. Include PPPoE if easy to achieve.