No, the router never rebooted so the sessions never dropped. One of those sessions listed with a 496 day uptime is my house and I know my session has not been up that long.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 5:01 PM To: Mikrotik discussions Subject: Re: [Mikrotik] Odd Just a guess... Did the pppoe sessions possibly come up BEFORE the Mikrotik device synced time with an ntp server? On 8/29/2012 3:47 PM, Robert Haas wrote: > Anyone see this before? > > I got an alert that one of our core routers rebooted at 2am this morning, > but no alarms from any attached devices as being unreachable etc. Got up and > logged in and the uptime was 8 minutes or so. > This afternoon I had a chance to investigate the router more. The router has > NOT rebooted - log files lack any indication I would expect to see from a > router reboot (hundreds of PPPoE session coming back up) and attached > devices interface statistics show no loss of link. > > Looking at the PPPoE active sessions, some of the session are showing up 496 > days - which is the actual uptime of the router, which isn't possible since > I have the PPPoE session time limit set for 24 hours. > > Attached is an image showing the Active PPPoE sessions and the resource page > showing the reported uptime. > > The router is on X86 hardware running v4.17. > > I'm hoping to NOT reboot this router if at all possible, but my gut says it > is down hill from this point. > > Is my gut telling me correctly to go ahead and reboot the router to clear > whatever has borked the router (memory leak, memory corruption, phase of the > moon) at the first chance I get? > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: 8-29-12.png > Type: image/png > Size: 100974 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20120829/943ab6f0/ attachment.png> > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -- Randy Cosby | InfoWest, Inc | www.infowest.com Vice President | 435-674-0165 x 2010 | facebook.com/infowest _______________________________________________ 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
