Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 07:51:55 +0200 From: "Federico Lorenzi" <florenzi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPPoE equivalent? Message-ID: <3a386af20705202251v10636696hfc75f17f17f13c42@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200705210407.l4L47alU000752@smtpclu-4.eunet.yu> References: <54f1b6eb0705201954r5d66a8b6y5871492a31c2a2ee@mail.gmail.com> <200705210407.l4L47alU000752@smtpclu-4.eunet.yu>
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On 5/21/07, Nikola Lecic <nlecic@eunet.yu> wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 10:54:48 +0800 > "Brian Walker" <bfwalker@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > > > 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. I'm not sure there is, I've had a similar problem like this before, and I got around it by writing a simple script that would try and ping a local site 4 times, and if no responses got back it would killall ppp and delete the default routes and tell ppp to reconnect. It worked quite well when put into cron to run at 1 minute intervals. You could also try Roaring penguin PPPoE and see if you have any success with that. Cheers Federico
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