From my research, the solution to this is to provide the persist option to

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803003 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803003#c0 Summary: smpppd does not configure pppd to reconnect after LCP echo failures due to heavy load Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: PC OS/Version: openSUSE 12.1 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: archie@dellroad.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 I have openSUSE configured to connect over a DSL line via PPPoE: # /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-dsl0 BOOTPROTO='none' DEVICE='eth0' MODEM_IP='10.0.0.13' NAME='DSL Connection' PPPD_OPTIONS='' PPPMODE='pppoe' PROVIDER='provider5' STARTMODE='auto' UDI='' USERCONTROL='yes' VPIVCI='8/35' When the eth0 ethernet interface comes up, the pppd process is properly started, it connects, and everything is great. Running pstree shows that things are working: |-smpppd-ifcfg --up --rc -i ifcfg-dsl0 | `-pppd logfd 7 call pppoe eth0 mtu 1492 mru 1492 ipcp-accept-local ipcp-accept-remote idle 900 defaultroute replacedefaultroute nodetach usepeerdns ifname dsl0 ipparam 'ifcfg-dsl0' 'provider5' user username@example.com passwordfd 8 However, when there is heavy download traffic on the line, sometimes four consecutive LCP echo request and/or reply packets will get dropped, causing the PPP session to terminate (see logs starting at 21:43:13): Feb 9 20:21:03 rebound pppd[15791]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Feb 9 20:21:03 rebound pppd[15791]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5 Feb 9 20:21:03 rebound pppd[15791]: Plugin passwordfd.so loaded. Feb 9 20:21:03 rebound pppd[15791]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: PPP session is 1893 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: Connected to 00:30:83:16:3d:43 via interface eth0 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: Renamed interface ppp0 to dsl0 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: Using interface dsl0 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: Connect: dsl0 <--> eth0 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: CHAP authentication succeeded: CHAP authentication success, unit 13425 Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: CHAP authentication succeeded Feb 9 20:21:08 rebound pppd[15791]: peer from calling number 00:30:83:16:3D:43 authorized Feb 9 20:21:09 rebound pppd[15791]: local IP address 1.2.3.4 Feb 9 20:21:09 rebound pppd[15791]: remote IP address 5.6.7.8 Feb 9 20:21:09 rebound pppd[15791]: primary DNS address 2.2.2.2 Feb 9 20:21:09 rebound pppd[15791]: secondary DNS address 2.2.2.3 Feb 9 20:21:09 rebound pppd[15791]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 15971), status = 0x0 Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: No response to 4 echo-requests Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: Serial link appears to be disconnected. Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: Connect time 82.1 minutes. Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: Sent 20606504 bytes, received 463895045 bytes. Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: Connection terminated. Feb 9 21:43:14 rebound pppd[15791]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 16478), status = 0x0 Feb 9 21:43:14 rebound pppd[15791]: Exit. At this point, the DSL connection is dead and will never come back. I have to then go down into the basement and manually restart networking (or, at least the ethernet interface). This is a bug. The connection should automatically reconnect in this situation. pppd: persist Do not exit after a connection is terminated; instead try to reopen the connection. Apparently this can be done explicitly by smppd-ifcfg or by adding "persist" to /etc/ppp/options. However, I haven't fully tested this but it seems like it should work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configured DSL line over PPPoE 2. Create heavy traffic in both directions 3. Wait an hour or two for 4 consecutive PPP LCP echo failures 4. Watch the DSL line go down and never recover Actual Results: Feb 9 21:43:13 rebound pppd[15791]: Connection terminated. Feb 9 21:43:14 rebound pppd[15791]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 16478), status = 0x0 Feb 9 21:43:14 rebound pppd[15791]: Exit. Expected Results: Should have reconnected. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.