Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:42:12PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Dulmandakh Sukhbaatar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-11-02 05:25]: > > > I'm new to OBSD, and configured in-kernel pppoe as my internet gateway. > > > I found out that with userland pppoe automatic reconnect is posible, but > > > with in-kernel pppoe everytime pppoe connection lost, I need to reboot > > > the system. I don't know how to manually reconnect the connection. Any > > > suggestions? Please help. > > > > huh? kernel PPPoE just reconnects when it loses the session > > > > No only if you add -link1.
Infact -link1 (ie. disable link1 == disable dial on demand) is the default behaviour. The manpage summarizes it quite nicely. By default it tries to keep the connection open at all times. Which includes trying to reconnect if the session is lost. There were a couple of problems in 3.7 with auto reconnection, which resulted in all kinds of workarounds being proposed/developed. In 3.8 none of them are necessary. It just works by default. Can
