TransACT pppoe dropouts

[James McNeill]

hi
Have you tried running a persistant ping in the background? I've found with
some dodgey dial-up connections can be kept alive by pinging something on
the other side.
might be worth a try, until you get it sorted.

-James


| 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.
|