bin/74821: PPPoE with LQR is broken for users connecting to a Juniper ERX

[Mike Tancsa]

The following reply was made to PR bin/74821; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/74821: PPPoE with LQR is broken for users connecting
  to a Juniper ERX
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:49:51 -0500

 And a quick blurb for the man page
 
 --- ppp.8.m4.prev       Wed Dec  8 09:37:30 2004
 +++ ppp.8.m4    Wed Dec  8 09:47:36 2004
 @@ -2777,6 +2777,14 @@
   We reject the peers discriminator if
   .Ar enddisc
   is denied.
 +.It forcelcpecho
 +Default: Disabled
 +This is used in conjunction with LQR enabled.   Some remote devices (e.g.
 +certain Juniper ERXes for PPPoE) will negotiate LQR LQM incorrectly
 +causing LQR to always fail resulting in ppp to constantly reconnect.
 +Enabling this option (enable forcelcpecho) causes FreeBSD to use
 +just LCPECHOS to monitor the link status.  Much of Canada has ERXes
 +for ADSL where this problem is particularly acute
   .It LANMan|chap80lm
   Default: Disabled and Accepted.
   The use of this authentication protocol
 
 
 
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