Hi!
Today one of my clients' firewall lost its pppoe connection and had to be manually restarted (ifconfig pppoe0 down/up). The funny thing was this log message: Feb 2 04:57:08 wall /bsd: pppoe0: loopback Feb 2 04:57:08 wall /bsd: pppoe0: phase terminate Feb 2 04:57:08 wall /bsd: pppoe0: phase dead I traced the "loopback" message to the state engine in /usr/src/sys/net/if_spppsubr.c if (nmagic == sp->lcp.magic) { /* Line loopback mode detected. */ printf(SPP_FMT "loopback\n", SPP_ARGS(ifp)); /* Shut down the PPP link. */ lcp.Close(sp); break; } Can in this case the link be reinitialized automatically or at least retry a couple of times? Regards, Mitja