[plug] pppd dying

[Andrew Howell]

Have similiar problems with a number of clients.

We end up just running ppp from init.

Andrew

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell Steicke" <r.steicke at bom.gov.au>
To: "Perth Linux Users Group" <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:11 PM
Subject: [plug] pppd dying


> 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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> Russell Steicke
> 
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