From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 6:47: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D399B37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:47:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B2AB43E91 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from liquid@liquidonline.ca) Received: from mail5.magma.ca (mail5.magma.ca [206.191.0.225]) by mx2.magma.ca (Magma Relay Server) with ESMTP id gAEEl1O2002489 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:47:01 -0500 Received: from windows (montreal-hs-64-26-155-234.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.155.234]) by mail5.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id gAEEl05x023746 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:47:00 -0500 (EST) From: "Liquid" To: Subject: resent - in txt format - using PPP to establish a PPPoE connection - won't renew if connection is dropped Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 09:47:15 -0500 Message-ID: <000501c28bec$b9573c80$6400a8c0@windows> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry everyone, forgot to convert to txt before sending this, so I'll resend I'm having this huge problem: I have adsl, and I connect using that PPPoE garbage. I also just changed ISP for a less expensive one, and I'm beginning to realize why its less expensive. I'm running a machine with FreeBSD 4.7 stable on it and whenever it gets disconnected (about twice daily, believe it or not) it can't seem to "realize" that such is the case and thus never reconnects to get a new IP. Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this? Whenever I'm not around, and this happens, I have to go out of my way to drive to where this box is located to reboot it. It's the only way I'm able to force it to reconnect. TIA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message