Hello,

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 06:00:44PM +0200, David Wetzel wrote:
> I run some machines connected by pppoe to the Deutsche Telekom network.
> I made a cron job that checks if the connection is down and if it is for some time it does a 
> 
> ifconfig pppoe0 down
> sleep 5
> ifconfig pppoe0 up
> 
> but sometimes only a "/etc/rc.d/network restart" helps.
> 
> Is there a fix for that?

If there are to many authentication errors, pppoe gives up to reconnect.
You have to either reset the failure count with

pppoectl pppoe0 clear-auth-failure

or you could set the max-auth-failure setting in /etc/ifconfig.pppoe0 to
a higher value.

HTH,
	Norbert.