Hi, I also suffer from this problem, and cannot understand anyone seems to care about it. As far as I understand, this bug is a duplicate of #100028 [1].
When using poff and pon, the issue does not happen, and all the children are killed: pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 16034) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 19247) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 18369) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 16050) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 17265) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 8728) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 32717) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 3264) terminated with signal 9 pppd[17909]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 (pid 9494) terminated with signal 9 (do not refer to the pid's, I use grsec's pid randomization) It does only happen with the 'persist' option (I haven't tried with 'ondemand', but I guess it would be the same, and even more problematic in this case as the children could be far more numerous). Here is the current situation on day 3: athena:/var/log# ps aux | grep [p]pp root 26453 0.0 0.4 4296 1440 ? Ss Mar09 0:54 /usr/sbin/pppd call wanadoo root 10122 0.0 0.2 2924 920 ? S Mar09 0:37 /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 root 29744 0.0 0.2 2904 928 ? S Mar10 0:20 /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 root 16273 0.0 0.2 2948 924 ? S 01:05 0:02 /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth2 -T 80 -m 1452 Cheers, Julien [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=100028 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
