On 2022-08-08, Stuart Longland <stua...@longlandclan.id.au> wrote: > This had been working fine for ages… but the past week it's been up and > down like a yo-yo. I suspect it is *NOT* my end, but rather, common > equipment in our area because others in my street (oddly enough, > related ISPs) have the same problem with connectivity. *BUT* I need to > appease L1 tech support, some of whom think a serial port is where > sailors go for breakfast.
Do you have an ISP-supplied router you can use temporarily? That's often a better bet when trying to get them to fix something which you strongly suspect is their fault..removes anything "weird" from the equation. > Have there been any significant changes in the PPPoE driver between 7.0 > and 7.1? Not really between 7.0 and 7.1. Session time calculation changed from UTC time to uptime and there's handling for fetching nameserver addresses. But there were some locking-related changes that went in before 7.0; -current has taken steps back from these.
