-----Original Message----- From: Michael Keuter [mailto:li...@mksolutions.info] Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:58 AM To: AstLinux Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux PPPoE restart issues
>Hi list, > >I have some issues with PPPoE restart on several boxes in the field >which use PPPoE in Germany. >When I click "Restart PPPoE" in the status tab, the PPPoE connection >sometimes stays open and after a while the status tab shows "no PPPoE >status available". > >Because this worked well for years, I guess we introduced this issue >around the tine when we included the PPTP server in Astlinux 0.7.7 in >March 2011. > >I tested this already with Lonnie. What I found out with manual >testing, that I need to run > >- pppoe-stop >- Now wait at least 160 second (otherwise I get errors that a duplicate >MAC address is trying to connect (this seems to be provider related)). >- pppoe-start > >The length of the timeout (delay) seems to be very important. > >Then it seems to work most of the time. >The issues appears in Germany for standard ADSL lines from "German >Telekom (T-Com/T-Online)" and "Hansenet/Alice". > >Does anyone else from the list saw those issues? I found those issues, >when I was trying put the automatic forced disconnect every 24h by the >provider into the night hours by a cron job. > >Michael Does noone use PPPoE? I never use the "restart" function. Only have 2 places that have PPPOE and hope to have that number down to zero before too much longer (if the ISP finally moves away from it as planned). Some of the issues you are seeing appear to be dependent on the ISP. Adding a sleep step in your init may be a way to go. I suppose we could add a variable PPPOE_RESTART_SLEEP which would be defined at zero by default would be an option. Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
