>Hi list, > >I have some issues with PPPoE restart on several boxes in the field >which use PPPoE in Germany. >When I click "Restart PPPoE" in the status tab, the PPPoE connection >sometimes stays open and after a while the status tab shows "no PPPoE >status available". > >Because this worked well for years, I guess we introduced this issue >around the tine when we included the PPTP server in Astlinux 0.7.7 in >March 2011. > >I tested this already with Lonnie. What I found out with manual >testing, that I need to run > >- pppoe-stop >- Now wait at least 160 second (otherwise I get errors that a >duplicate MAC address is trying to connect (this seems to be provider >related)). >- pppoe-start > >The length of the timeout (delay) seems to be very important. > >Then it seems to work most of the time. >The issues appears in Germany for standard ADSL lines from "German >Telekom (T-Com/T-Online)" and "Hansenet/Alice". > >Does anyone else from the list saw those issues? I found those >issues, when I was trying put the automatic forced disconnect every >24h by the provider into the night hours by a cron job. > >Michael
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