Hello Patrick, your mail sounds a bit confusing. I assume you have a following setup: - your board is configured as router. - your internal interface is the wireless athn0 - your external interface is pppoe0 on a wired interface (like re0), but you do not tell us.
>> Specifically if wireless retransmission and specifically interface can >> potentially cause pppope timeouts when acting as a bridge. ppp is never on a bridge nor acts as bridge. >> /bsd: pppoe0 LCP keepalive timeout This is the only useful line in your post to me. For sure your problem has nothing to do wireless or 80211. This happens when the physical connection to your ISP gets interrupted or, more likely, the ppp-implementation of your ISP has a different timeout than that which is hard coded in sys/net/if_spppsubr.c (15s with at least every third LCP-keepalive reaching us). To solve your problem you have two options: - Create at least every 30s some traffic on pppoe0 at all times. - Run a custum kernel. My workaround is modified if_spppsubr.c. My ISPs timeout-interval is 45s, so I increased MAXALIVECNT from 3 to 9. There is no warranty with this option at all! You are on your own. Good luck!
