What is PPPoE?

["PPPoE"] is short for ["PPP"] over ["Ethernet"].

It was put in use by internet providers and is amazingly annoying because of how it caught PPP implementations off guard (which were usually restricted to serial ports and subsequentially modems).

How to make it work

In order to make PPPoE run on a Debian station you must follow the following steps:

If everything went fine, now you should be able to browse.

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