From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 11:56:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 270BD16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:56:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from tank.questzones.com (mercantilequest.com [207.253.199.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805C843D1F for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 11:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sa_murr@cam.org) Received: from [207.96.185.116] (unverified [207.96.185.116]) by tank.questzones.com for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:48:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 14:56:25 -0500 (EST) From: Scot X-X-Sender: sa_murr@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040313140645.C161-100000@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: A question about PPPoE and LQR. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 19:56:32 -0000 Greetings to to you. I'm running 4.9-STABLE, and using userland PPP to connect to my ISP. For several months I've been experiencing constant periodic lag in my connection, and it's only recently that I have tracked the problem down to PPP and the LQR feature. I've got 1-mbit ADSL with a static IP. While I have been using FreeBSD for a while, I'm no guru, so please bear with me! Succinctly put: When I enable LQR in my ppp.conf, my connection drops and reconnects every 3 minutes (+/-), since "tun0: LQM: deflink: Too many LQR packets lost". This gives me an annoying 5 to 10 second lag while doing it's thing... possibly fatal while MUD'ing! ;-) An example of a ping series to www.freebsd.org: 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=117 ttl=51 time=100.795 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=118 ttl=51 time=100.736 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=119 ttl=51 time=101.165 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=120 ttl=51 time=3728.962 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=121 ttl=51 time=2722.021 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=122 ttl=51 time=1714.950 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=123 ttl=51 time=707.868 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=124 ttl=51 time=102.800 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=125 ttl=51 time=100.783 ms 64 bytes from 216.136.204.117: icmp_seq=126 ttl=51 time=101.738 ms ... well... you could see how that could get annoying, every 3 minutes. When I disable my LQR, I have a blissfully lag-free connection... but only while it is actually connected. If the line actually drops, it doesn't seem to redial, no matter that I have my ppp set up with -ddial option. If it weren't for the fact that I like to check my email by SSH'ing into the machine, and run Apache for my personal webpage, I'd let it go at that. I haven't included tons of logs or copies of .conf's, since in all my searching I've found a few other people with similar problems, but no real solutions. Basically, am I missing something? Is there no real solution? Do I leave my LQR enabled and live with frequent MUD deaths? Or do I disable the LQR in my ppp.conf and manually restart ppp whenever I get home and notice it's down? Or is there an Option X that I have missed in my google searches? Anybody that can point me in a direction that I've not checked would be appreciated. -Scot