On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:25:33PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I've recently installed an ADSL modem as my primary connection to > the internet. The modem that my provider gave me is a Speedtouch. I > have this installed on a Debian sarge machine, which uses a 2.4 > kernel. This was one of the first problems I had: this kernel does > not support hotplug firmware upload. To be able to upload the > firmware I installed the "speedtouch" package which in turn calls > ifup on the network interface. As a pre-up command I run br2684ctl > and configure the nas0 interface. Only then pppd is called. (I'm > doing this detailed description just in case anyone is stuck as I > was) > > Ok, everything is working apart from one thing: from time to time > my provider disconnects me and pppd isn't able to recover. As far as > I understood the problem is that the running br2684ctl needs to be > killed and then restarted. Since the interface doesn't go down no > /etc/network/interface scripts are run. > > Does any one have any idea on how I can accomplish that? >
Check to see if your modem has a web interface that will allow it to handle your pppoe for you. Then you can just set it up as a regular DHCP or static ethernet link and not worry about it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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