On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 00:12, Daniel Pittman wrote: > On 28 Jul 2004, Hector Scaramelli wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 23:10, Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> On 26 Jul 2004, Hector Scaramelli wrote: > >>> I have a firewall box running Woddy 3.0r2 that gets its IP address > >>> dynamically from an adsl modem. > >>> Two or three times a day it looses the connection to the internet, an > >>> ifconfig command won't show ppp0, so issuing "pon dsl-provider" usually > >>> makes it work. > >> > >> Right. Recent pppd needs to be told several times to just keep trying. > >> > >> Add these two commands to your /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file, and see > >> if that helps: > >> > >> persist > >> maxfail 0 > >> > > persist is already there as well as: > > noipdefault > > defaultroute > > hide password > > lcp-echo-interval 20 > > lcp-echo-failure 3 > > connect /bin/true > > noauth > > persist > > mtu1492 > > > > I'll try adding maxfail 0 . > > That will be the problem, then. 'persist' tells pppd to connect again > when the line drops, but without 'maxfail 0' it will eventually give up > on the connection and terminate. > > So, adding the second command will fix the problem of pppd failing to > reconnect for you, I expect. > > I had the same issue until I found that, and I have not had a problem in > years since I did add it. :)
Indeed is working in my home firewall but I have another that today lost connection, the log showed: ----------------------------8<------------------------------------ Jul 30 10:32:20 siac pppd[162]: LCP terminated by peer Jul 30 10:32:21 siac pppd[162]: tcflush failed: Input/output error Jul 30 10:32:21 siac pppd[162]: Exit. ---------------------------->8----------------------------------- Thank you very much for your help. Hector > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > An independent reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be > ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation. > -- Niels Bohr > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
