Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 18 May 2006 02:07, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hello, I'm trying FreeBSD as a PPPoE client for my ADSL connection. Setup was great, but I'm finding that when I lose a connection (troubles with my isp), the ppp command does not return like I would like it to. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 5/18/06, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enable echo so ppp will know when the other peer is down, and then will act as you tell it to. I think enabling echo and -ddial mode will be fine, no need of scripting, but anyways the recommended way of interacting with ppp(8) is

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 5/18/06, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enable echo so ppp will know when the other peer is down, and then will act as you tell it to. I think enabling echo and -ddial mode will be fine, no need of scripting, but anyways the recommended way of interacting with ppp(8) is

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread cknipe
Quoting Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've noticed that when I drop ppp, the tun0 seems to hang on a bit. If I restart too quickly, I get a tun1. The ifconfig command will not permit me to destroy tun0 either, so I wait for a little while before bringing it back up again. In the

Re: pppoe reliability

2006-05-18 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 5/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the ppp.linkdown mylabel: iface clear That will clear the interface and also remove the address when the PPPoE goes down. Ah, thanks. I see that /usr/share/examples/ppp has more examples of this. I wish the handbook did, since it's my