* Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Every few weeks...months, the PPPoE session for my ADSL line goes > away (some time during the night) and is not reestablished. The > corresponding pppoe interface is down, state "initial", a number > of PADIs have been sent, but no further retries seem to be happening. > When I become aware of the problem, I only need to do "ifconfig > pppoe0 up" and a new session is established immediately. > > In this part of the world, PPPoE sessions for consumer ADSL lines > are dropped after 24h, so there is a daily disconnect, but pppoe > reconnects right away. No problem there. Other session drops > happen from time to time and look suspiciously like scheduled > maintenance work at the ISP. When I've been around to witness this, > pppoe has reconnected eventually. > > However, sometimes pppoe just seems get wedged and stop retrying. > Does anybody else see this too?
I am using pppoe(4) on 14 different ADSL lines, with different modems and different hardware, but all OpenBSD and I have never seen this happen. But them I am not sure if the ISPs drop the connection at all, since all these use fix IP addresses. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] > -- Marc Balmer, Micro Systems, Wiesendamm 2a, Postfach, CH-4019 Basel, Switzerland http://www.msys.ch/ http://www.vnode.ch/ "In God we trust, in C we code."
