From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 18 15:42:01 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE38CF85 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:42:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@balholm.com) Received: from mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com (mailrelay.embarq.synacor.com [208.47.184.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992B56D3 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:42:00 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=O6MA4nNW c=1 sm=0 tr=0 a=2AdnQ58rmhUdJrAIWwsKfQ==:117 a=2AdnQ58rmhUdJrAIWwsKfQ==:17 a=K-v-2zaBAAAA:8 a=c3c8EV7VYOkA:10 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=6d4CiLQ1AAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=veIvJii4UIIA:10 a=GXMa7k_sAAAA:8 a=tW3DqdBTeEvlcPJKb-MA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 a=SZeMz2o1f9YA:10 a=JLDbO_X_RdcA:10 a=lAzXm-Q2DDoA:10 a=3_yY8EWNDhAA:10 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp01.embarq.synacor.com smtp.user=andybalholm@centurylink.net; auth=pass (LOGIN) Received: from [174.31.93.192] ([174.31.93.192:1828] helo=balholm.com) by smtp.centurylink.net (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTPSA (cipher=AES256-SHA) id 87/24-12047-0CC08E15; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:41:53 -0400 Received: from andys-imac.lan (andys-imac.lan [10.1.10.203]) by balholm.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r6IFfnEI087095 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:41:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@balholm.com) From: Andy Balholm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: pppoe connection freezes Message-Id: Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:41:50 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:42:01 -0000 I have CenturyLink DSL, and I use the user-space ppp program in FreeBSD = 9.1 to make the PPPoE connection. =46rom time to time (every few days) = the connection freezes up=97no more data can be sent or received. No = error shows up in ppp.log; all I can see there is that there are no more = RecvEchoRequest and SendEchoReply entries after the connection freezes. = If I send SIGINT to the ppp program, it reconnects just fine. I talked to CenturyLink's tech support, and they said that one of the = times that I had a problem, the connection was dropped on their end, but = the others it was fine. My ppp command line is ppp -nat -ddial centurylink My ppp.conf: default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command disable ipv6cp centurylink: set device PPPoE:rl0 enable lqr set authname balholmandrew@qwest.net set authkey ######## set dial set login add default HISADDR Is there a setting I can add to ppp.conf to make it detect when the = connection freezes? Or is there something else that I need to fix? Andy Balholm (509) 276-2065 andy@balholm.com