Re: pppoeconf problems

[Hector Scaramelli <pwrpnt@wpowerpoint.com>]

On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 23:10, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2004, Hector Scaramelli wrote:
> > I have a firewall box running Woddy 3.0r2 that gets its IP address
> > dynamically from an adsl modem.
> > Two or three times a day it looses the connection to the internet, an
> > ifconfig command won't show ppp0, so issuing "pon dsl-provider" usually
> > makes it work.
> 
> Right. Recent pppd needs to be told several times to just keep trying.
> 
> Add these two commands to your /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file, and see
> if that helps:
> 
>     persist
>     maxfail 0
> 
persist is already there as well as:
noipdefault
defaultroute
hide password
lcp-echo-interval 20
lcp-echo-failure 3
connect /bin/true
noauth
persist
mtu1492

I'll try adding maxfail 0 .

Thanks
Hector

> Regards,
>         Daniel
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