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Subject: Re: pppoed problem with reconnections
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Hi,

Eugene Perevyazko wrote:
> You have to look at keep-alive settings to terminate dead connections.
> And why don't you try an mpd (/usr/ports/net/mpd) that is perfectly suited
> to manage hundreds and thousands of simultaneous ppp (and PPPoE in particular)
> connections? It's fast, flexible and easy to setup both as server and client.

As Luiz suggested, I've changed the config to:

enable lqr echo
set echoperiod 5

which sorts my problem out just fine.

I did look into using mpd - mainly to compare which works best for our 
situation.  However, I was having trouble making any PPPoE connections 
come up when using mpd; I suspect that this is me not fully 
understanding what I'm doing - and although I've done quite a bit of 
looking, I can't find any good example configurations for a PPPoE server 
using mpd (I'm sure they exist!).  Do you have any pointers for this?

Regards,

Paul.