[plug] westnet ADSL problems with Debian

Sat Oct 5 13:10:47 WST 2002

Hi Craig,

I'm also connected to westnet ADSL with debian and im also getting
disconnected every now and again.
I get disconnected around once or twice a week. I've always put it down to
Telstra or westnet screwups, but im starting to become suspicions there may
be something else causing the problem.

I have noticed that its more likely I get kicked off when I start a number
of large file xfers.
It could be the dslmodem is getting swamped and falling over so I'm going to
upgrade the firmware in the next few days and see if that helps. (Dlink DSL
300)

If that don't help I think I may call westnet support :)

Ben

p.s. I implemented QOS on my DSL link the other day and im amazed at the
increase in performance!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:26 AM
Subject: [plug] westnet ADSL problems with Debian

> Hi all
> Does anybody on list use WestNet's ADSL service with a Debian box?
>
> I'm having some issues, not sure if its debian-specific or what, but
> maybe somebody on list can shed some light, because I'm currently quite
> stumped.
>
> I'm getting disconnects after semi-random times, in the order of 3 - 14
> hours after connect. Log snippets from connect and disconnect (with
> debug enabled in pppd) attached.
>
> The key line seems to be
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppoe[5159]: Session terminated -- received
> PADT from peer
>
> Seems like WN is killing the connection, but I don't know enough about
> PPPoE ADSL to tell. We have wonderful transparent bridging ADSL here at
> work - the 'net on an ethernet interface :-)
>
> So, any ideas? Has anybody seen a similar problem? Google and
> groups.google.com show me a bunch of similar problem reports but little
> useful info on fixing it.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
> GPG Key Fingerprint: AF1C ABFE 7E64 E9C8 FC27  C16E D3CE CDC0 0E93 380D
> -- if it ain't broke, add features 'till it is. (or:)
> while (! broken) { features ++ ; broken = isBroken(features) }
>

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> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x44
magic=0x9f7d416b]
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x45
magic=0x304d19f1]
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x45
magic=0x9f7d416b]
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x46
magic=0x304d19f1]
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x46
magic=0x9f7d416b]
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppoe[5159]: Session terminated -- received PADT
from peer
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Script /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth1 -T
80 -m 1452 finished (pid 5159), status = 0x0
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Modem hangup
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid
6128)
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Connection terminated.
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Connect time 780.2 minutes.
> Oct  3 06:40:49 firewall pppd[4347]: Sent 2218993 bytes, received 35229678
bytes.
>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppd[4347]: Serial connection established.
> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppd[4347]: using channel 25
> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppd[4347]: Using interface ppp0
> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppd[4347]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppoe[6409]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
> Oct  3 06:41:19 firewall pppoe[6409]: PPP session is 2950
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x7 <asyncmap
0x0> <magic 0xd1b518b7> <pcomp> <accomp>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xe5 <magic
0x3b10a7ee> <mru 1500> <auth chap MD5>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP ConfNak id=0xe5 <auth pap>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP ConfRej id=0x7 <asyncmap
0x0> <accomp>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x8 <magic
0xd1b518b7> <pcomp>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xe6 <magic
0x3b10a7ee> <mru 1500> <auth pap>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xe6 <magic
0x3b10a7ee> <mru 1500> <auth pap>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x8 <magic
0xd1b518b7> <pcomp>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0
magic=0xd1b518b7]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x3
user="bunnym at westnet.com.au" password=<hidden>]
> Oct  3 06:41:20 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0
magic=0x3b10a7ee]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x3 ""]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x7 <addr
0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns3 0.0.0.0>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x3 <deflate 15>
<deflate(old#) 15> <bsd v1 15>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0xf9 <addr
172.31.30.50>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0xf9 <addr
172.31.30.50>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x7 <compress
VJ 0f 01>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x8 <addr
0.0.0.0> <ms-dns1 0.0.0.0> <ms-dns3 0.0.0.0>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0xe7 80 fd 01 03
00 0f 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f 04 c0 23 e3 b2 04 31 00 16 33 eb e4
dc 0c 4c ...]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x8 <addr
202.72.167.247> <ms-dns1 203.10.1.17> <ms-dns3 203.10.1.9>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x9 <addr
202.72.167.247> <ms-dns1 203.10.1.17> <ms-dns3 203.10.1.9>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x9 <addr
202.72.167.247> <ms-dns1 203.10.1.17> <ms-dns3 203.10.1.9>]
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
proxy ARP
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: local  IP address 202.72.167.247
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: remote IP address 172.31.30.50
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: primary   DNS address 203.10.1.17
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: secondary DNS address 203.10.1.9
> Oct  3 06:41:21 firewall pppd[4347]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid
6411)
> Oct  3 06:41:28 firewall pppd[4347]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid
6411), status = 0x0
> Oct  3 06:41:30 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x0
magic=0x3b10a7ee]
> Oct  3 06:41:30 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x0
magic=0xd1b518b7]
> Oct  3 06:41:40 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x1
magic=0x3b10a7ee]
> Oct  3 06:41:40 firewall pppd[4347]: sent [LCP EchoRep id=0x1
magic=0xd1b518b7]
> Oct  3 06:41:50 firewall pppd[4347]: rcvd [LCP EchoReq id=0x2
magic=0x3b10a7ee]
>