Hi group

I made some changes to one of my customers today and rebooted the system, only 
to find that I no longer had connectivity :(
I went to site and found all was good except I could not for the life of me get 
the PPPoE re-established.

I reset the Marconi VDSL modem
I reset the Astlinux box multiple times
I tried pppoe-stop and pppoe-start from the CLI and got this:

CAP1-90003-ATP ~ # pppoe-stop
pppoe-stop: No PPPoE connection appears to be running
CAP1-90003-ATP ~ # pppoe-start
................TIMED OUT
/usr/sbin/pppoe-start: line 193:  3527 Terminated              $CONNECT "$@" > 
/dev/null 2>&1

But the same thing happened where the link eventually comes up but I see no 
status in the Status webgui page and I get a log full of these complaints:

Oct 25 10:17:38 CAP1-90003-ATP daemon.err pppd[2427]: Unable to complete PPPoE 
Discovery
Oct 25 10:17:48 CAP1-90003-ATP daemon.warn pppd[3116]: Timeout waiting for PADS 
packets
Oct 25 10:17:48 CAP1-90003-ATP daemon.err pppd[3116]: Unable to complete PPPoE 
Discovery
Oct 25 10:17:53 CAP1-90003-ATP daemon.warn pppd[251]: Timeout waiting for PADS 
packets
Oct 25 10:17:53 CAP1-90003-ATP daemon.err pppd[251]: Unable to complete PPPoE 
Discovery

I looked at all the processes and there seemed to be multiple pppd processes:

  166 root     /sbin/udevd --daemon
  251 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
  406 root     /sbin/syslogd -s 1024 -m 60 -b 2
  408 root     klogd
  413 root     crond
 1322 nobody   dnsmasq
 1338 nobody   openvpn --daemon --writepid /var/run/openvpn.pid --config 
/etc/openvpn.conf
 1360 root     /usr/sbin/sshd
 1365 root     vsftpd /etc/vsftpd.conf
 1386 root     asterisk -p -I
 1387 root     astcanary 
/var/run/asterisk/alt.asterisk.canary.tweet.tweet.tweet 1386
 1409 root     shellinaboxd -u root -g nobody --no-beep 
--background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid --disable-ssl --localhost-only --serv
 1411 root     shellinaboxd -u root -g nobody --no-beep 
--background=/var/run/shellinaboxd.pid --disable-ssl --localhost-only --serv
 1420 root     lighttpd -f /etc/lighttpd.conf
 1421 root     /usr/bin/php
 1424 65535    inadyn
 1426 root     /usr/bin/php
 1427 root     /usr/bin/php
 1433 root     /usr/bin/php
 1447 root     /sbin/getty -L 38400 /dev/ttyS0 vt100
 1555 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 1796 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 1969 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 2255 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 2427 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 3091 root     sshd: root@pts/0
 3093 root     -sh
 3116 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 3268 root     sshd: root@notty
 3270 root     /usr/libexec/sftp-server
 3333 root     pppd plugin /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.5/rp-pppoe.so nic-eth0 noipdefault 
noauth default-asyncmap defaultroute hide-password n
 3509 root     ps -A

Finally I recall that Michael mentioned in one of my previous posts to set 
PPPOEKERNEL="yes" in user.conf. I did this and it came up straight away after a 
reboot (thanks Michael).

So my questions I hope someone can answer are:

1) What does PPPOEKERNEL do?
2) Why did it fix my problem?
3) Should I use it for all my sites?

Regards
Michael Knill





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