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

[Serban Giuroiu]

> > 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.

I figured it out - I didn't realize there was a sleep
command in bash. I just put a ping in a while loop
with a sleep statement in it and have it run from
rc.local.

> > 
> > 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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