ppp is broken???

Nagy László Zsolt nagylzs at freemail.hu
Thu May 10 08:12:00 UTC 2007


>   
>> 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.

Regards,

   Laszlo


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