Every few weeks...months, the PPPoE session for my ADSL line goes away (some time during the night) and is not reestablished. The corresponding pppoe interface is down, state "initial", a number of PADIs have been sent, but no further retries seem to be happening. When I become aware of the problem, I only need to do "ifconfig pppoe0 up" and a new session is established immediately.
In this part of the world, PPPoE sessions for consumer ADSL lines are dropped after 24h, so there is a daily disconnect, but pppoe reconnects right away. No problem there. Other session drops happen from time to time and look suspiciously like scheduled maintenance work at the ISP. When I've been around to witness this, pppoe has reconnected eventually. However, sometimes pppoe just seems get wedged and stop retrying. Does anybody else see this too? -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
