Hello, >I am using pppoe on OpenBSD 6.0 stable to setup a connection >to Deutsche Telekom (VDSL). Problem: Usually it takes 3 or 4 >minutes to establish the connection. Is this as expected?
I'm in the same situation. The problem seems to lie with with VDSL, the modem takes a long time compared to the old ADSL modems to synchronise with the DSLAM on the other side; 2 minutes are not unusual. Only once the modem is synced can a PPPoE connection be established. So if the connection is severed for whatever reason, the pppoe device tries to reestablish the PPPoE tunnel, but fails since the modem isn't synced yet. The pppoe retries seem have increasingly longer wait periods between them, which in principle makes sense, but unfortunately the timing of these wait periods and how long it usually takes for VDSL to sync are such that is may take p to 5 minutes to get a connection back. I already contemplated asking on this list if there is a way to modify these wait periods, since I can't find anything in the documentation. Hope that helps, Konstantin [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
