hi again,I remember having done once or twice a tcpdump record while it did
happenand the output was silent.I'll post a fresh update of the dumped
stream as soon as it will f*ck upagain but/because today it seems to work
just fine.thanks,On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:06:22PM +0100, J.Lorec wrote:
> [...]
>
> while my internet connection is lost:
>
> >ifconfig pppoe0
> pppoe0: flags=8851<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1492
>         inet 81.56.X.X -> 192.168.254.254 netmask 0xff000000
>
> >pppoectl -d pppoe0
> pppoe0: state = session
>         Session ID: 0xe229
>         PADI retries: 0
>         PADR retries: 0

While in this state, can you run tcpdump -n -i ne2 and see what packets
are going in/out ?
pppoe control packets, as well as incoming traffic could be interesting.

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