pppoe reconnection issue

[Bipin Patel]

hi,

pfsense uses mpd so is there anything equivalent to it?


Regards,
Bipin
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-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re: pppoe reconnection issue
From: Sin <sinister at gmail.com>
To: Bipin Patel <bipin at xbipin.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:33:02 PM

> I've been using FreeBSD since 4.7 with PPPoE on DSL. I noticed around
> v5.5 I had this issue as well. I don't use mpd for the connection, but I
> do use the user ppp program. The exact same problem would happen, since
> that version of FreeBSD i've had to enable link quality and reporting in
> my ppp.conf file:
>
> enable lqr
> set lqrperiod 10
>
> The extra traffic is minimal.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bipin Patel" <bipin at xbipin.com>
> To: <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 8:47 AM
> Subject: pppoe reconnection issue
>
>
>>
>> hi,
>> can some1 help or fix this issue mentioned here
>> [1]http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41061.0.html
>> its something to do with freebsd and mpd which causes a pppoe
>> connection not to reestablish once the modem is reset leaving behind a
>> zombie connection which is only brought down with a link down, older
>> freebsd used to perform this well along with the older mpd v4 i guess
>> but this newer mpd v5.5 and newer bsd has this issue, it more over
>> looks like a mpd issue and i was asked to bring up this in this
>> mailing list as the developers at pfsense havent yet replied and there
>> r quiet a few ppl suffering this including me
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Bipin
>> _________________________________________________________________
>>
>> References
>>
>> 1. http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,41061.0.html
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