[plug] failing adsl connection

[Adam Hewitt]

Dont worry about the MTU and MRU values, they are not your problem. The 
problem is occuring due to inactivity. There is a line you can add to 
your pppoe config that keeps the connection alive and will 
automatically attempt to bring it up if it ever goes down, although I 
can't remember it off the top of my head.

maxfail=0 rings a bell though.

Adam.


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 04:56 PM, Sol wrote:

> For some reason, just recently my pppoe connection over a D-Link 300 
> ADSL ethernet modem has started falling over. Restarting the network 
> gets it going agin and it stays going so long as there's some regular 
> activity. Stay away too long and fails again. I don't know what's 
> causing it nor what to do about it. But is seems that 
> /var/log/messages gives some clues. Here's a slice:
>
> Jul 21 13:27:19 tesla pppd[17950]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 
> 17965), status = 0x0
> Jul 21 13:27:26 tesla kernel: eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> Jul 21 13:27:26 tesla kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present
> Jul 21 13:30:08 tesla kernel: SuSE-FW-ACCEPT IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= 
> SRC=202.141.190.124 DST=202.72.180.183 LEN=48 TOS=0x08 PREC=0x00 
> TTL=110 ID=48216 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=4825 DPT=80 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 
> SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B401010402)
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Terminating connection due to lack 
> of activity.
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Setting MTU to 1492.
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Connection terminated.
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Connect time 20.9 minutes.
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Sent 202915 bytes, received 2015720 
> bytes.
> Jul 21 13:48:07 tesla pppd[17950]: Doing disconnect
>
> I don't even know what MTU and MRU are:(  Anyone got any ideas what 
> might be wrong?
>
> thankyous; sol
>
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> Sol Hanna
> solATautonomonDOTnet
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