DSL connection setup in Ubuntu 16.04

How can I set up my DSL connection on Ubuntu 16.04? The way I set up a DSL connection in Ubuntu 14.04 is not working in Ubuntu 16.04.

5 Answers

I solved my problem through following steps:

1. go to terminal
2. type sudo pppoeconf
3. it will ask some question, press yes
4. when you want to start internet just type sudo pon dsl-provider to connect to internet
5. type this to turn it off sudo poff

This tutorial is going to show you how to setup a PPPoE connection in Ubuntu from the terminal.

1. Open up your terminal and type the following command to set your PPPoE connection.

   nmcli con edit type pppoe con-name “YOUR_CONNECTION_NAME” 

2. Enter your DSL account and password provided by your ISP and save your settings in the following commands.

   set pppoe.username YOUR_DSL_ACCOUNT_USERNAME set pppoe.password YOUR_DSL_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD save 

   Then it will prompt asking:

   Saving the connection with ‘autoconnect=yes’. That might result in immediate activation of the connection. Do you still want to save? (yes/no). 

   Type yes and quit.

   

3. Finally, select DSL connection from the network settings menu to establish the connection.

   
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References:

Just run sudo pppoeconf in terminal. Then give your username and password in popup windows.

I was having the same problem yesterday, and I tried all the above options but this did not work. However, today, after comparing the dsl-provider file on my Ubuntu 16.04 computer with the file that has the same name on my Debian 8.8 computer, I noticed that there was an error in the Ubuntu file. So I fixed the file this way:

# Minimalistic default options file for DSL/PPPoE connections noipdefault defaultroute replacedefaultroute hide-password #lcp-echo-interval 30 #lcp-echo-failure 4 noauth persist #mtu 1492 #persist #maxfail 0 #holdoff 20 plugin rp-pppoe.so nic-enp3s0f1 usepeerdns user "XXXXXXX" 

where XXXXXXX is my mailbox provider.

Edit the file:

$ sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces 

By adding to it:

auto lo eth0 iface lo loopback eth0 inet dhcp 

After restart network-manager:

$ sudo service network-manager restart