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 have seen something similar happen at a number of locations here in
chicago:
kernel pppoe runs fine for several weeks and then it gets locked up and
requires several 'ifconfig pppoe0 {down,up}' cycles or several reboots
to get it resurrected. it has occurred with both AT&T/SBC and Earthlink
ISPs here.
i have fixed IPs on most of the ADSL lines in question but some are dynamic.
cheers,
jake
