Re: DSL (pppoe) connection drops and never reconnects

On 12/28/09 15:07, Tim Nelson wrote:
> > ----- "mtnbkr" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> Hello everyone. Happy Holidays!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I have been experiencing some recent intermittent issues at at least
>> >> one of my
>> >> client's sites where the DSL (PPPoE) connection is dropped, and all
>> >> attempts
>> >> to re-establish the connection by m0n0wall fail until the DSL modem
>> >> and the
>> >> m0n0wall are rebooted.
> >
> > Ensure you have 'Dial on Demand mode' *UN*checked. Also, try setting your
idle timeout to '0' or just leave it blank.
> >
> > Tim Nelson
> > Systems/Network Support

Hi Tim, thanks for the reply, but the PPPoE "dial-on-demand" feature was
removed from m0n0wall in version 1.3b12. The problems I am seeing are on a
1.3b15 m0n0wall. ;)

Here's the relevant posting from the changelog: http://m0n0.ch/wall/changelog.php

1.3b12 (07/07/2008)
...
- Remove PPPoE/PPTP dial-on-demand feature. Still doesn't work properly,
nobody has enough interest in it to fix it, and most people probably don't
need it anyway



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Bill Arlofski
Reverse Polarity, LLC