TransACT pppoe dropouts

[John Griffiths]

i've got a cable router on mine so it's auto redialling,

but i haven't noticed any interruptions, and I poll the server for mail
every 5 minutes.

At 10:27 AM 10/17/02 +1000, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
>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.
>
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