Hi, it says above you cc'd this to Debian-User. I couldn't see it there, but reply to the list anyway. Might be of use...
On Fre, 2004-02-06 at 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm interested in the post you had to the list with the above subject...I am > experiencing the same problem although it happens sporadically. Do you have > a sure-fire way of reproducing this? Did you figure out this problem or > have any more info? The problem: pppd, while told to persist, gets some hickup and dies once the connection is terminated by the peer. Sample syslog: > Nov 20 05:26:20 zwerg pppoe[26980]: Session terminated -- received PADT from peer > Nov 20 05:26:23 zwerg pppd[26979]: LCP terminated by peer > Nov 20 05:26:24 zwerg pppd[26979]: ioctl(PPPIOCSASYNCMAP): Inappropriate ioctl for device(25) > Nov 20 05:26:24 zwerg pppd[26979]: tcflush failed: Input/output error > Nov 20 05:26:24 zwerg pppd[26979]: Exit. I had reports that a "holdoff" option for pppd would help for some people, but have inconclusive results myself(1). Perhaps you should try this first. An old thread on debian-user-de was the best resource I could find regarding the issue (2). In short, someone said you should use the "roaring penguin" package. Another person, capable of reading the code, pointed out that rp-ppoe would handle the issue in a brute force manner, so you could just as well apply brute force yourself. As for myself, I now have a cronjob running every minute: test -e /var/run/ppp0.pid || pppd call dsl-provider This is a brute-force workaround; it also has the side effect of cluttering my syslog. but it works. (1) The "holdoff" option, telling pppd to wait a little before attempting the reconnect, was a sucess for me -- at first. However, after a power outage my DSL-modem failed to come back to life. After replacing it with a seemingly identical device, the problem was back. (2) "PPPoE und T-Offline", http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2002/debian-user-german-200207/msg00009.html cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
