[plug] pppd dying

[Russell Steicke]

Hi,

I'm having trouble with an instance of pppd dying once every couple of
days.  pppd just dies silently, without any messages.  ppp is configured
with

  pty "/usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth0 -T 80 -m 1452"

so I can't be sure if it's a pppd problem or a pppoe problem.  the
config file has the persist option, and I can see where pppd is
sometimes restarting pppoe, so that's working, at least sometimes.  But
some of these occurrences seem to happen when the link goes down for
some reason (pppoe exits) then pppd runs /etc/ppp/ip-down, and exits,
despite the persist option.

This is with westnet adsl, a DLink DSL-500 in bridge mode, debian woody
and ppp 2.4.1.uus-4.

I've resorted to a shell script run by cron that checks the link and
does brute force pppd kill and restart if it's not up.

I imagine there are lots of people here with similar setups.  How
reliable is this for you?

Thanks
Russell



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