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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 12:57:07 -0500
From:      Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        <ericdahan@meiway.com>
Subject:   PPPoE dying too long
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20010904123753.05df08f8@mail.Go2France.com>

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Prior to installing in a customer site, weīve been running a 4.3R and PPPoE 
into a banal Alcatel ADSL bridge, "Home Speed" or somethting, in France as 
LAN router/ipfilter firewall.  All seems to be running well, but after very 
long observation, we donīt like:

1. pinging from an LAN station to the ip of the upstream WAN port, we 
observe 5 to 10% ping loss.  Itīs ADSL from France Telecom , sh!t is to be 
expected.

2. pinging from internet to the FreeBSD ethernet/PPPoE interface, we see 
similar ping loss.  cool, itīs symmetrical.

3. whatīs disturbing is that from the inside, we sometimes see total 
disconnects of 3 minutes or more, where ping just times out 20 times or so, 
5 second timeouts.   We donīt see these long disconnnects when pinging from 
internet to FreeBSD.

4.  During these long disconnects, we can sometimes shorten them by 
refreshing a website page from the LAN to Internet, ie, it seems that we 
can get PPPoE, dead to ping and POP3 mailbox checks, going again by hitting 
a website.  But, this is not a reliable technique.

We canīt fix the crappy ip over ADSL from FT, but what can we do to prevent 
what appears to be long timeouts in the PPPoE to Internet provoked by lost 
packets, which renders the FreeBSD solution unuseable.

hereīs our ppp.conf:

  set log Chat Warning Alert Error Connect

  set device PPPoE:ste0:meidsl
  set speed sync
  set mru 1454
  set mtu 1454
  set ctsrts off
  enable lqr
  add default HISADDR
  set timeout 0
  set redial 0 0
  enable lqr
  set lqrperiod 2
  accept lqr
  #Network Address Translation (NAT)
  nat enable no
  #nat log yes
  #nat same_ports yes
  #nat unregistered_only yes
  enable dns

meidsl:
  set authname mei-ip-n2@adsl-tp2.fsa
  set authkey something

thanks
Len


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