Restarting DSL connection without reboot?
Beech Rintoul
beech at alaskaparadise.com
Fri Nov 17 09:26:05 PST 2006
On Thursday 16 November 2006 22:59, Nejc Skoberne wrote:
> Dear community,
>
> I am having continuous problems with ADSL connections and FreeBSD servers.
> I am running a few dozens of FreeBSD boxes and today in the morning a lot
> of them were without internet connectivity. Looks like our provider had
> some maintenance work or something.
>
> What happened: the tech guy at one of the customers first rebooted the
> server 2 times and then he called me. We tried together:
>
> 1. first we tried to ping an internet IP address and the reply was "No
> buffer space available". After that we did "killall -9 ppp" until all
> the ppp processes died. After that we ran /etc/rc.d/ppp-user (it's a 5.3
> box) again but the connection wouldn't come up (no route to host, when
> pinging).
>
> 2. After reboot everything worked as it should.
>
> I really don't like to reboot servers as soon as they lose DSL
> connectivity. Is there any "proper" way to reset the connection (network
> card?) so that the connection restores without a reboot?
>
> Previously I've been running Linux on these servers and at that time I
> didn't have these problems - a reset of modem would always resolve the
> problem.
>
> Mostly I am using rl network cards, if that's an helpful info, but
> somewhere I also have sis and others.
>
> My ppp.conf:
>
> default:
> set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
> set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0
> SiOL:
> set device PPPoE:rl0
> set authname user
> set authkey pass
> set dial
> set login
> set redial 5 0
> add default HISADDR
>
> My ppp.linkup:
>
> MYADDR:
> !bg sh -c "/sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf"
>
> My rc.conf (ppp entries):
>
> ppp_enable="YES"
> ppp_profile="SiOL"
> ppp_mode="ddial"
> ppp_nat="NO"
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Nejc
Try doing /etc/rc.d/netif start
That works for me when my wireless get's jammed and I notice it also resets my
internal lan.
Beech
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