thank you for your reply.....a lot to digest....

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Rick Sewill <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 02:18 -0500, charles zeitler wrote:
>
>
> I could be way off base.  I haven't used ppp in years.
>
> My instinct is there are a number of possibilities why the link would go
> down.  The following are a few I can think of:
> 1) PPP decides the peer is dead
> 2) PPP decides the link is idle and wishes to disconnect
>
> Let me talk about these two possibilites.
>
> 1) PPP decides the peer is dead
>

would not pppoe re-establish itself later, say after reboot & trying a
different peer?

>
>
>
> 2) PPP decides the link is idle and wishes to disconnect


the "connection" still shows "active", but there is no dns resolution...

>
>
> -Rick
>
> charles zeitler


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