Help me to navigate to PPPoE logs

[SecureGate]

I just updated my OPNsense to 25.1, however I can't find the PPPoE logs anymore. Can you help me to locate the Point-to-Point logs?

Thanks!

[FraLem]

Have you checked  the General logs?

[SecureGate]

Yes, but it doesn't have comprehensive PPPoE logs and is too cluttered with other information. Even the search bar doesn't allow me to search by process column, like "process:ppp"

[telefonmann]

Same problem with me, I used to look into Point-to-Point>Logs (Punkt-zu-Punkt>Protokolldatei in German) for connectivity issues with my ISP. Where can I find this info in 25.x?

[franco]

It was always logging as "ppp".


Cheers,
Franco

[dseven]

I find myself wading in pppoe issues today, and ran into this. From what I can tell....

mpd5 does identify as 'ppp' to syslog, but there is no dedicated log for this "program" (I think there was in the past?), so it falls through to the catch-all "system" (a.k.a. "General") log, but unfortunately that log is filtered (in the syslog-ng config, not the UI) for only levels 'notice' thru 'emerg', so the 'informational' level message that we expect to see get blackholed.

If there was a dedicated PPP log in the past, why was it removed? It seems like a backwards step.

Actually it's still referred to here: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/logging_interfaces.html

[dseven]

Further; the move of ppp (and wireless) to the "system" log is release-noted for 25.1. Unfortunately this renders ppp logging (at least) essentially disabled, for the reason above. I'll probably file a github issue on this.

update: created https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/8390

[franco]

Test version of mpd5 here https://github.com/opnsense/ports/issues/222#issuecomment-2706534032

All feedback welcome.


Cheers,
Franco

[SecureGate]

Test version of mpd5 here https://github.com/opnsense/ports/issues/222#issuecomment-2706534032

All feedback welcome.


Cheers,
Franco

This finally fixes my issue! I ran into a PPPoE problem today, and luckily, this thread was updated just in time. Thanks, dseven, for reporting this on GitHub! It's great to know the fix is coming in version 25.1.3. That said, I preferred how PPPoE logs were handled in version 24, where they had a separate menu. The current setup lacks a filter for the 'process' column, and the search button retrieves all 'ppp' keywords across processes, making the logs cluttered.