Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 06:07:32 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@EUnet.yu> To: "Brian Walker" <bfwalker@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE equivalent? Message-ID: <200705210407.l4L47alU000752@smtpclu-4.eunet.yu> In-Reply-To: <54f1b6eb0705201954r5d66a8b6y5871492a31c2a2ee@mail.gmail.com> References: <54f1b6eb0705201954r5d66a8b6y5871492a31c2a2ee@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:54:48 +0800 "Brian Walker" <bfwalker@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, >=20 > I regularly find my computer is bumped off the net - on the Windows > OS I see a regular notification of re-connection. On My linux box I > need to 'sudo pppoeconf' to reconnect. The FreeBSD handbook deals > rather scantily with PPPoE, and I can find nothing much on googling. > Any ideas how best to a) prevent being kicked off and b) > reconnecting. At the moment I simply do 'sudo ppp -ddial internet' to > be reassigned and all works well ... for a while. The best response > is to leave FreeBSD and connect on re-entry into the OS. There has > to be a better way. Have you checked the ppp FAQ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ppp.html What does 'regularly' mean? Any special circumstances (for example, a heavy load)? Please send your /etc/ppp/ppp.conf, the relevant portion of /etc/rc.conf (cat /etc/rc.conf | grep ppp) and some logs (see ppp(8) how to enable it). Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87
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