Upon further testing it's not limited to 5.x like i thought, Under 4.17 it takes around 1 minute for the PPPoE client to figure out it's dead.
The old 2.9 manual says there should be a keepalive timeout for the pppoe client so I wonder when they nuked that option. Puts us in a real pickle On 2 December 2011 13:14, Chris Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 on this one. Makes recovering from an upstream line issue very > interesting… > > On 02/12/2011, at 10:43 AM, Tristram Cheer wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > Bit of an odd one, Does anyone know why in ROS 5.x the PPPoE client > doesn't > > die if the connection is cut off but the interface it's attached to > remains > > up? Basiclly we are going to use a PPPoE client with a ADSL bridge. If > the > > phone line is pulled the traffic stops but the PPPoE Client on the RB750 > > think's it's still running even 5min after a disconnect. > > > > Is this normal behavior? > > > > Cheers > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111202/3cad60ed/attachment.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mikrotik mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik > RouterOS > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111202/22b0b311/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS
