On 2015-01-09 23:59, Bjoern Voigt wrote:
Unfortunately I do not know how to configure my DSL Internet connection with YaST or directly with a configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network/providers/provider* so that "pppd" starts with my options and not with the "demand" option. Probably this is a missing function in openSUSE's network setup tools.
Perhaps in "/etc/ppp/options". I see "maxfail" there, commented out. Or perhaps IDLETIME 0 or -1, as I said previously, in the provider file.
Until now, I haven't tested my options.
Thanks also for the "ping" and "DHCP" hints. I think, it's OK to ping a private IP address which is not part of my LAN, but routing thinks, that the address can be reached with default route. With something like "ping 10.1.2.3" (if 10.0.0.0/8 is not part of my network) the PPP connection comes up and my provider drops the useless ICMP packets.
Just ping google. 8.8.8.8. One packet. ROTFL! Just found this by error: cer@Telcontar:~> host google google has address 127.0.53.53 google mail is handled by 10 your-dns-needs-immediate-attention.google. cer@Telcontar:~> X'-)
By the way, "pppd" can easily detect broken connections. The detection is done with PPP echo-requests. A broken connection looks like this in /var/log/messages:
Yep. Sounds familiar. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)