15 July 2008 c. 14:57:58 Henning Brauer wrote:
> * Xavier Millihs-Lacroix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-15
09:02]:
> > Sometimes when I boot a soekris box (net5501) - OpenBSD 4.3, I
> > didn't get each times an ip address for the pppoe0 link.
> > This is a problem as I can connect to this box only remotely.
> > I didn't find on the documentation how to reconnect automatically if
> > the link goes down.
>
> pppoe automagically reconnects.
>
> many ISPs have some logic to deny you from opening two ppp sessions,
> so by the time your box reboots the old sessions has not yet timed
> out. You can't do all that much but waiting for the old session to
> expire, pppoe will retry all the time.
Search for PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS kernel option. I have such
provider, and this option helps a lot.
BTW: Is there any point to translate this knob to interface linkN flag?
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Best wishes,
Vadim Zhukov
