well, this is the worst scenario I could think of.
thank you very much, I'll investigate w/ my isp.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "J.Lorec" <j.lorec@ddcr.biz>
Cc: <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: pppoe connection randomly down


> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 02:10:27PM +0100, J.Lorec wrote:
> > hello,my connection finally hang late this morning and I had to manually
> > restart the network few hours later to recovermy connection.hereis the
> > tcpdump output extract requested (I cannot interpret those messages at
all
> > by myself):...
> [...]
> > IP-Addr=192.168.254.25412:35:32.167749 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01]
Echo-Req(125),
> > Magic-Num=10d63af112:35:32.291893 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Rep(125),
> > Magic-Num=5959e31e12:35:33.914553 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Req(43),
> > Magic-Num=5959e31e12:35:33.914582 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Rep(43),
> > Magic-Num=10d63af112:35:34.106992 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Conf-Req(19),
> > IP-Addr=192.168.254.25412:35:36.123516 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Conf-Req(20),
> > IP-Addr=192.168.254.25412:35:38.137848 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Conf-Req(21),
> > IP-Addr=192.168.254.25412:35:42.167752 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01]
Echo-Req(126),
> > Magic-Num=10d63af112:35:42.288718 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Rep(126),
> > Magic-Num=5959e31e12:35:44.153288 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Req(44),
> > Magic-Num=5959e31e12:35:44.153319 PPPoE  [ses 0xef01] Echo-Rep(44),
> > Magic-Num=10d63af1...
>
> > what happens? Is this a configuration problem? Is
> > something missing?
>
> It looks like the pppoe session is still up, as the remote properly reply
to
> Echo-Req paquets. It's most likely an issue on the ISP side.
>
> > Is something like "options PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS"
> > kernel option may help?
>
> I don't think so. This session isn't dead, from the client side at last.
>
> To work around this, I would write a small shell script trying a ping to
> know-working IPs at the ISP side, and restart the pppoe session if it
fail.
> At one time I used the attached script (of course you'll have to change
the
> IPs), but now I don't need this any more.
>
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>