Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:46:50 +1100 From: nil000@cse.unsw.edu.au To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: userland PPPoE LQM/LQR alternative Message-ID: <3FCC0B2A.5040708@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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The monopoly ADSL provider in australia recently began migrating users to new hardware which has been configured to ignore LQR packets (RFC1989). This was a simple way for the FreeBSD box to decide if the link is down or not. So now I cant use "enable lqr" in my ppp.conf, otherwise the session gets dropped every 3 minutes or so from lack of a LQR response from the provider. I'd like to have some way for the box to detect link failure and to try connecting again, but would rather not implement a "custom" solution such as scripting regular pings etc. I have had someone suggest trying LCP echo to detect link failure, however from what I have read so far this seems only to be an option in kernel-mode pppd, not user-mode ppp. Can anyone point me in the direction of a PPPoE solution that makes use of an established protocol? thanks, nik
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