Linux PPPoE/ADSL Clinet Support

The ncurses utility PPPoE/ADSL - PPP over ethernet driver. pppoeconf Configures PPP/ADSL connections.

pppoe clamp MSS at 1452 bytes  (If you still get problems described above try setting to 1412 in the dsl-provider file.)
Now, you can make a DSL connection with "pon dsl-provider" and terminate it with "poff".  
You can use the "plog" command to see the status or "ip addr show ppp0" for general interface info.

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Uninstall pppoeconf

To remove just pppoeconf package itself from Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) execute on terminal:

sudo apt-get remove pppoeconf

Uninstall pppoeconf and it's dependent packages

To remove the pppoeconf package and any other dependant package which are no longer needed from Ubuntu Xenial.

sudo apt-get autoremove pppoeconf

Purging pppoeconf

If you also want to delete configuration and/or data files of pppoeconf from Ubuntu Xenial then this will work:

sudo apt-get purge pppoeconf

To delete configuration and/or data files of pppoeconf and it's dependencies from Ubuntu Xenial then execute:

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge pppoeconf