[plug] Help with ADSL Modem for a Newbie

[Andrew Howell]

We just run it from init with persist turned off and nodetach on and
problem solved.

Andrew

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:45 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 01:16, Garry wrote:
> 
> > | Hang on tho', I'm sure Craig has said somewhere else that the pppoe client
> > | under woody had "issues". Can anyone first confirm if this is so before
> > | Tim attempts to set bridged mode ?
> 
> Well, I'm having problems with pppoe on Woody, and have done on two
> different machines with different ISPs in different locations. In both
> cases, the problem is that pppd appears to be unable to re-establish a
> connection if it is lost. Killing pppd and restarting it does the trick.
> 
> In one case, upgrading to the vanilla (and newer) rp-pppoe did the
> trick, though I don't use that machine anymore. The other one, at work,
> I'm considering giving the same treatment (I'm only 10 minutes away by
> bike, but at 2:00am or 7:00am that's 10 minutes more than I'd like), but
> will try a pppd and pppoe client from backports.org first.
> 
> All I can really say is that my experience with the pppoe client in
> vanilla woody has been somewhat problematic. It's not impossible that
> I've just misconfigured it the same way in each problem site. It's also
> worth noting that I find the Woody pppoe client dead reliable ... until
> the connection is broken by an error at the ISP, where it may fail to
> reconnect. It _usually_ reconnects fine, it just sometimes fails to -
> usually, it seems, if the outage is fairly long.
> 
> Eh. I'd just fetch pppd and pppoe from backports - it's probably a good
> idea anyway. I'll let you folks know in a few months if it helps, as
> I'll be doing so at work shortly.
> 
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> Craig Ringer
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