Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-21 Thread snowcrash+freebsd
hi, I'm not sure there is, I've had a similar problem like this before, and I got around it by writing a simple script that would try and ping a local site 4 times, and if no responses got back it would killall ppp and delete the default routes and tell ppp to reconnect. It worked quite well

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-21 Thread Brian Walker
Here is my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf it has been worked on but so far seems to have been OK. As for regularly: it basically means several times a day for no reason that is apparent to me. default: set timeout 180 enable dns set log Phase Chat IPCP tun command set redial

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-21 Thread snowcrash+freebsd
Yes, it puzzles me why it happens in the first place, but as it hits the XP, linux and BSD connections equally frequenly, I am assuming it is a function of hardware or IP provider. fwiw, looking at your conf, my ppp.conf contains one setting that yours does not ... enable tcpmssfixup there's

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-21 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:39:06 +0800 Brian Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf it has been worked on but so far seems to have been OK. As for regularly: it basically means several times a day for no reason that is apparent to me. default: set timeout 180

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-21 Thread RW
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:39:06 +0800 Brian Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf it has been worked on but so far seems to have been OK. As for regularly: it basically means several times a day for no reason that is apparent to me. I'd try simplifing first. I have

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-20 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:54:48 +0800 Brian Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I regularly find my computer is bumped off the net - on the Windows OS I see a regular notification of re-connection. On My linux box I need to 'sudo pppoeconf' to reconnect. The FreeBSD handbook deals

Re: PPPoE equivalent?

2007-05-20 Thread Federico Lorenzi
On 5/21/07, Nikola Lecic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:54:48 +0800 Brian Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I regularly find my computer is bumped off the net - on the Windows OS I see a regular notification of re-connection. On My linux box I need to 'sudo