ppp is broken???
RW
fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Thu May 10 14:52:20 UTC 2007
On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:12:00 +0200
Nagy László Zsolt <nagylzs at freemail.hu> wrote:
>
> >
> >> The format of the statement to add
> >> is ifconfig_xxxx=up where xxxx is the NIC's FBSD interface name
> >> used by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file.
> >> ee /etc/rc.conf # add following statements
> >> ifconfig_xxxx=up
> >>
> >
> > I've not needed to do this,
> >
> >
> >> ifconfig_tun0="DHCP" # get your ISP assigned IP address
> >>
> >
> > PPP has its own mechanism for getting an IP address and dns server
> > addresses. You don't normally need to specify DHCP for the
> > interface.
> I'm now totally confused. I tried this configuration also, but the
> connection still drops in every 3 hours. Can it be a problem with the
> ISP? I'm going to do a stress test with another computer to see if
> the ADSL line is stable or not.
>
Are you using the -ddial option?
if you start ppp through rc.conf add
ppp_mode="ddial"
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