PPPOE Failure on Verizon DSL

[JP Glutting]

Hi,

I have been running pppoe over a Verizon DSL service for about a year 
and a half, and it suddenly has failed. I first noticed this a few days 
ago, and assumed the the connection hd timed-out (which it used to to, 
until I started to run Kmil, which makes periodic pop requests over the 
ethenet connection). Kmail was not running, and since I had never 
figured out to get pppoe running without rebooting, I decided to try to 
figure it out once and for all. The normal boot gets pptpd and 
ppp_on_boot (redirected to a dsl script) running. I restarted all these, 
but no luck.

Since then, I have not pppoe onnection when using the linux box. It is 
not a hardware issue, bucause we have a PowerBook running on this line, 
and the Debian box is dual boot to Win2K, which connects without any 
problems (so the NIC is working).

I have looked at all the configuration files, and none of them were 
modified recently, so I didn't accidently mess something up while poking 
around.

Does anyone know if Verizon (in Boston here) has made any modifications 
to their connection protocols recently?

Has the recent upgrade of tcpdump affected pppoe in any way? I could not 
find it installed on the Debian box at home, but I remember it being 
upgraded recently (probably here at work).

Thanks for any help,

JP

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