Greg Thomas wrote:
SuSE ships with Jamal's client so I'm guessing the stock SuSE kernel includes support but I'm using a self compiled kernel so I don't know. Actually PPPoE is handled by the firewall machine which is still 6.1. Maybe SuSE could pipe up and tells us if it's in the stock 6.3 kernel.
When I tried Jamal's I got a "Can't locate module char-major-144".
I don't know what char-major-144 is. It sounds familar. Usually most people get a 108. 108 is the new ppp number I think. Did it work when you tried it? I sort of ignore warning messages if it works-)
Ok, I understand a little better now. Of the above I still don't understand what the lcp-restart does? Here's my log the last time I got disconnected:
The lines I included are basically what some of the people using the system here have settled on. I just increased the numbers a little in hopes of improving things. Looking at your log what happens is what happens to us. The system "forgets" to send the LCP stuff. Your end finally gives up and decides that the ISP is dead. I get the impression our ISP was one of the first to switch over to PPPoE. That's why at least four different clients have come out of the people on this ISP.
I'd really like to get this reliable so my wife can just log on and check her e-mail without worrying whether the link is down.
I know the feeling. You can supposedly setup PPP to automatically restart. I've had no luck in getting the various files in /etc/ppp to work right. But then my link is stable enough that I haven't tried too much. Take a look at the roaring penguin client. It supposedly comes with a bunch of stuff to make it fairly painless to setup. http://www.suse.de/~bk/PPPoE-project.html Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/