[svlug] PPPoE Problem: Inactivity timeout... something wicked happened

[Serban Giuroiu]

Oops - sorry Rick, forgot to send this to the list.

> I went to the gateway to make the modifications that
> you suggested and I noticed something: about a week
> ago I was messing around and moved the pppoe.conf
> file
> to pppoe.conf.orig. I forgot to set it back and the
> server still ran without saying anything (as far as
> I
> know). Maybe there is some other configuration file
> or
> something on my system.
> 
> I changed the values of LCP_INTERVAL, LCP_FAILURE,
> and
> PPPOE_TIMEOUT and commented out the LINUX_PLUGIN,
> but
> nothing has changed. I looked at
> http://www.voy.com/41165/1148.html and the guy wrote
> that he had a ping running over and over again to
> keep
> the connection alive. I want to do that too, but I
> don't know how I would make it execute every 30
> seconds or so.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Serban Giuroiu
> 
> --- Rick Schultz <bloodyvikings at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Serban Giuroiu wrote:
> > 
> > > I was hoping someone here could help me.
> > 
> > Judging by the dns servers, I've got the same
> > service as you.  I'm not
> > familiar with the error, but I can point out the
> few
> > differences between
> > our configurations.
> > 
> > > > USEPEERDNS=no
> > 
> > I am using peerdns.  Probably not the problem,
> > though.
> > 
> > > > # LCP echo interval and failure count.
> > > > LCP_INTERVAL=20
> > > > LCP_FAILURE=3
> > > >
> > > > # PPPOE_TIMEOUT should be about 4*LCP_INTERVAL
> > > > PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80
> > 
> > I have these as well, but a bit of googling
> revealed
> > somebody else with
> > this problem who changed them to:
> > 
> > LCP_INTERVAL=120
> > LCP_FAILURE=5
> > PPPOE_TIMEOUT=600
> > 
> > (cf. http://www.voy.com/41165/1148.html).
> > 
> > > > LINUX_PLUGIN=/etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so
> > 
> > This looks the most suspicious.  Last I checked,
> > kernel-mode pppoe was
> > still experimental.  I'd say if the above doesn't
> > help, comment this bit
> > out and see what happens.
> > 
> > good luck,
> > rick
> > 
> >
>
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