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Date:      Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:37:10 +0400
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@cell.sick.ru>
To:        Yohan <yohanphilip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPPoE
Message-ID:  <20040706083710.GA65283@cell.sick.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20040706083243.68288.qmail@web60808.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20040706083243.68288.qmail@web60808.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 01:32:43AM -0700, Yohan wrote:
Y> The connection hangs invariably after 8 - 10 hours. It
Y> resumes after i kill the ppp process and redial. Could
Y> it be because the isp is re-assingning my IP. How do i
Y> automatically renew my IP with the ISP's DHCP server.

This is a common practice of ISPs to drop connection after
several hours. May be your client does not detects that 
connection is closed. Do you have LQR configured in ppp.conf?

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.
GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE



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