PPPoE problem: "Too many LQR packets lost"

[Julian Elischer]

Stephen McKay wrote:

>On Saturday, 24th July 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:
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>>On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:47:26 +1000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
>>wrote:
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>>>I found Mike Tancsa's patch but didn't like it.  I rolled my own, which
>>>seems to be working so far.  It works by switching from LQR to simple
>>>echo requests when LQR times out.
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>>I feel so unliked ;-)
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>:-)
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>>Seriously though, mine was a very ugly hack to
>>get things working again for me.   Most of the DSL aggregators here
>>are Juniper ERXes which do not play nice with FreeBSD's PPPoE.
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any thoughts as to why?

FreeBSD's pppoe is going through a little development at the moment..
Now would be a good time to get it fixed..

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>I think I would have just taken your hack if it had been in lqr_Setup()
>where hdlc.lqm.method is initially set.  As it was I was in a funny mood
>and wanted to write my own hack. :-)
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>>>(This is a patch against ppp in FreeBSD 4.8.  I haven't tried the ppp in
>>>-current yet as -current is still a wild and woolly place that scares me.)
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>>I think Brian re worked the LQR portion at least from looking at the
>>commit messages
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>If I'm looking at the same stuff as you, he's reworked the LQR code to
>be more accurate with byte counts and such.  I don't see any changes that
>address our "LQR fails completely" problems.
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>Stephen.
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