On 2020-06-17, Christian Weisgerber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-06-17, Lévai, Dániel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to run a script whenever I get a new IP address from my ISP over >> pppoe0. They disconnect me occasionally and the router reconnects then, eg.: >> /bsd: pppoe: GENERIC ERROR: RP-PPPoE: Child pppd process terminated >> /bsd: pppoe0: received unexpected PADO >> last message repeated 2 times
This "GENERIC ERROR" is sent by your ISP. Their pppoe server process is dying for some reason, if you can reach a sysadmin or somebody useful in their technical support then they might be interested in looking into that.. >> I have this as the last line in /etc/hostname.pppoe0: >> !/bin/sh /etc/hostname.pppoe0.script pppoe0 0.0.0.1 >> >> It doesn't seem to be executed when this happens, only when I reboot the >> router. > > /etc/hostname.* is only executed once when the system starts. > > The PPP disconnect/reconnect is handled entirely by pppoe(4)--well, > sppp(4) really--in the kernel. There is no callout to the userland > available. > > It may be possible to use ifstated(8) for this. I haven't tried > that, but it's where I would start looking. > >> Is the culprit here something along the lines of not (re)configuring the >> interface with ifconfig up/down (in which case the script would run), > > Note that ifconfig down/up will not run /etc/hostname.* either. If you don't get anywhere with ifstated, you could always run a script from cron that checks "ifconfig pppoe0" for changes to the address..
