Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Brian Somers
> > >>There is no 3 minute blackout. The session is just closed. Change > >>lqrperiod if you want a shorter deconnexion. > > > >Merci bcp, so that´s where from the repeatable 6 x 30 seconds comes!! thanks Of course your provider should be sending a PADT... perhaps their end is crashing or some

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Len Conrad
>>There is no 3 minute blackout. The session is just closed. Change >>lqrperiod if you want a shorter deconnexion. > >Merci bcp, so that´s where from the repeatable 6 x 30 seconds comes!! thanks but with ppp.conf having: enable lqr set lqr accept set lqrperiod 3 we get: Aug 20 15:51:11

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Len Conrad
> > ... for at least the reason that France Telecom (French-govt-protected > > monopoly), God bless 'em, cripples their ADSL service by inserting 3 > minute > > blackouts, at the next hop at end their end of the ADSL, link throughout > > the day, (ping to next hop dead) to protect their exor

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
> Len Conrad writes: > We´re very happy with PPPoE into our cable modem > ´cept the whole link isn´t reliable : > ... for at least the reason that France Telecom (French-govt-protected > monopoly), God bless 'em, cripples their ADSL service by inserting 3 minute > blackouts, at the

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Brian Somers
> >WRT the PPPoE lockup problem, I'd love to get to the bottom of this > >(I can't reproduce it here). If anybody can give me an account on a > >machine that locks up like this, I'd gladly have a crack at trying to > >solve the problem. > > we are not sure we have the ppp lockup, but we certainl

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Len Conrad
>WRT killing ppp, the best way is: > > killall ppp; killall -2 ppp and the best works! Our script now succeeds in bringing up PPP again. Thanks >WRT the PPPoE lockup problem, I'd love to get to the bottom of this >(I can't reproduce it here). If anybody can give me an account on a >m

Re: taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Brian Somers
Hi, WRT killing ppp, the best way is: killall ppp; killall -2 ppp The first tells ppp to exit cleanly and starts it trying to negotiate a shutdown with the other end. The second kill tells ppp to just drop all existing connections. WRT the PPPoE lockup problem, I'd love to get to the bott

taking ppp down and up

2001-08-20 Thread Len Conrad
We´re very happy with PPPoE into our cable modem ´cept the whole link isn´t reliable : ... for at least the reason that France Telecom (French-govt-protected monopoly), God bless 'em, cripples their ADSL service by inserting 3 minute blackouts, at the next hop at end their end of the ADSL,