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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