From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 28 7:10:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from www.lambertfam.org (www.lambertfam.org [209.142.170.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 185C837B41B for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (dialup-63.210.223.191.Dial1.NewYork1.Level3.net [63.210.223.191]) by www.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4330164C19 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:10:31 -0600 (CST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F2A5B28B09; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:10:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 10:10:28 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Whats with this -> sendto: No buffer space available Message-ID: <20011128151028.GA601@laptop.lambertfam.org> Reply-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org References: <3C048E4D.5030609@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 08:51:24PM +1100, Rowan Crowe wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Kal Torak wrote: > > > Hmm I have never noticed the link light go out... And I actualy do > > force the config in my rc.conf, I have "media 10baseT/UTP up" as > > the strings for mine... > > The ADSL link itself is up, but the path to the host you're running the > PPPoE tunnel with is broken. > > > I am convinced now that this is caused by telstra dropping out and > > the send que filling up... But why does it not empty? Is there some > > way to fix this??? Would upping the mbufs work? Because the way I > > see it if I increase them it will just fill them all anyway if the > > link is down long enough?? > > Does PPPoE have LCP echo or other link quality measuring facilities like > LQR? If so, set it up so that it detects when the other end dies, downs > the interface, then retries logins periodically, succeeding when the path > is again working. This is what I had to do with my PPPoE ADSL link to Centurytel. I have about 15 minutes of downtime per day with them. They just disappear. Centurytel's equipment sends ECHO LQR requests but ppp doesn't seem to care if those stop coming in. My connection just stayed down until I added the LQR requests to my ppp.conf: enable lqr set lqrperiod 30 Now my ppp.log shows my router box redialing and not seeing any PPPoE traffic (or carrier?) for 5 to 30 minutes after the LQR monitoring dies. At least they usually do come back up. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin -- Looking for work. lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 2.5 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. The last 5 months have included exposure to Solaris 7, True64 5, and Linux. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message