TransACT pppoe dropouts

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On occasions my pppoe connection to Webone seems to become very unstable.

I'm currently getting a drop-out every hour or so (sometimes every 10 minutes 
or so).  I have previously have had connections up for over a week, and I 
have not changed any configs here that I can think of.

Is anyone else experiencing this?  If not (ie, it is just me), then what is 
the best way of debugging this kind of stuff.  I'd like to actually know 
something before complaining to Webone, as I currently have no idea if it is 
my end or theirs.

/var/log/messages simply says (for example):
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: No response to 2 echo-requests
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: Connection terminated.
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: Connect time 5.0 minutes.
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: Sent 12461 bytes, received 11687 bytes.
Oct 17 10:16:47 kenobi pppd[2880]: Exit.

which is not particularly helpful.

My pppoe connection goes out over eth1, and from ifconfig:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:67:3E:13:CC
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22227 errors:0 dropped:55 overruns:0 frame:67
          TX packets:17001 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:2 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:12 Base address:0xa000

I note there are a number of dropped RX packets.  However, I have not idea if 
this is normal for a pppoe interface or not.  There are no dropped packets on 
the ppp0 link itself.

Rasjid.