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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:20:51 -0500
From:      "Liquid" <liquid@liquidonline.ca>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Your experiences using PPPoE
Message-ID:  <000a01c28c02$2efc11d0$6400a8c0@windows>

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I'm just looking to see how others connect their FreeBSD machine to the
internet around here if they have a PPPoE connection.  I thought mine
was ok, as I never would be offline with one ISP (up to 5 weeks), but
now I've changed ISP and my machine is no longer able to realize that
the ppp link is down and needs to be renegotiated.  I'm especially
interested in knowing what 3rd party programs people use.  For the
networking guru's: I know for a fact my former ISP did not go 5 weeks
straight without dropping my connection, they sent mail regarding
downtime for repairs twice in that period.  Is there something about one
isp vs another one that can keep my machine from noticing when the
connection is lost?

Here is my ppp.conf:

FIREWALL# ee /etc/ppp/ppp.conf

default:
 ident user-ppp VERSION (built COMPILATIONDATE)
 set device PPPoe:rl0
 set mru 1492
 set mtu 1492
 set timeout 0
 set log Phase Chat Connect LCP IPCP CCP tun command
 set ifaddr 1.1.1.1/0 1.1.1.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0
 set cd 5
 set crtscts on
 enable dns

pppoe:
 # set mode dedicated
 set authname ******@magma.ca
 set authkey *****
 set dial
 set login

in my rc.conf, I've set it to connect on startup, in dedicated mode, and
tried ddial today as well, running the process as root.  I also have a
ppp.linkup:

MYADDR:
 Add 0 0 HISADDR

If anyone sees room for improvement, or knows where I can inform myself
on creating a neat hangup script that can kill the ppp process and fire
up a new one, by all means let me know

Thanks,

Sandro M.


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