On Tue, 2020-02-11 at 17:14 +0000, John wrote: > I run a small LAN (currently about 10 active members) all connected to > the Internet via a Debian Buster firewall and PPPoE. Most of the time > this is stable and transparent but just on occasion (like last night) > the PPP link goes down and I have to restart it manually when I notice > the issue. This brings up two problems. > > 1: [...] > 2: Ideally I would like PPP to restart after a break without manual > intervention. Following advice earlier I have in the > /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file the lines > persist > holdoff 1 > which used to give some resilience but at 4am today it did not. Is > there a simple way to restart automatically that works?
I don't have to restart my ppp manually. Looking at the notes I made when I set this up many, many years ago I have... Edit /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider to add a line saying "maxfail 0", after the 'persist' entry is a good place. This should stop pppd from timing out when it can't connect. Also, my 'pppd' logging goes to /var/log/messages, so if you're trying to debug your connection you could try looking there. -- Tixy
