[ale] Keeping pppoe alive

[M Raju]

I have been having this issue with Speed Factory as well. According to
Darryl on the ticket that I have open:

<quote>
The sessions auto cleanup command enables an aggregation device to
attempt to recover PPPoE sessions that existed before a reload. When
the aggregation device detects a PPPoE packet for a "half-active"
PPPoE session (a PPPoE session that is active on the CPE end only),
the device notifies the CPE of the PPPoE session failure by sending a
PPPoE PADT packet. The CPE device is expected to respond to the PADT
packet by taking failure recovery action. [ed: (i.e. powercycling your
modem)]

</quote>

Seems like a passage taken out of Cisco's PPPoE implementation and the
solution was to implement some kind of keepalive mechanism.

I use the OpenBSD in-kernel PPPoE (userland PPP was a little slow) and
the LCP sessions simply terminate with a "phase dead" message. Perhaps
the fix will be in CVS soon or a wacky ping script is on order ;-)

_Raju






On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:25:23 -0500, Jim Seymour
<bluejay at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have seen this issue in here before but could not locate it. I am
> using Speedfactory for my dsl service. Every now and then I will lose my
> connection. Since this machine is the internet router for other boxes I
> am looking for a way to restart the connection when it dies without
> intervention from me or anyone else. From what I can tell when this
> happens the pppd daemon remains alive. Usually I will have to take ppp0
> and the ethernet adapter down and bring them back up manually. Sometimes
> I even have to resort to a reboot :-( This is a Debian Sarge box using
> Roaring Penguin for the pppoe connection. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim Seymour
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