To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
Cc: current-users@netbsd.org, Chris Ewert <chris@infolaunch.com>
Subject: Re: lcp timouts with PPPoE and earthlink DSL

Dear Martin,
   Thanks for the suggestion - The problem was that I had dhclient running
on the eithernet interface (which is how earthlink has you set up the
dsl modem).  I believe running dhclient on the eithernet interface was
causing problems.  Both the kernel I built without the PP_KEEPALIVE flag
and with the flag did not have the problem I indicated if I did not
have dhclient on the ethernet interface.

   Thanks again - I'm a happy camper at this point!

johnh...

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, John Hayward wrote:

> Thanks for the pointer - I was about to look for this code fragment as
> the symptoms seemed to indicate that Earthlink was not responding to
> the LCP echo.
> This will save me some time and gives me encouragment as the direction
> I was thinking of going.
>
> I'll let you know how it turns out this evening.
> johnh...
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Martin Husemann wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 22:15:37 +0100
> > From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
> > To: John Hayward <John.C.Hayward@wheaton.edu>
> > Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: lcp timouts with PPPoE and earthlink DSL
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:06:32PM +0000, John Hayward wrote:
> >
> > >    The major remaining problem I have is that when I'm running NetBSD-1.6
> > > connected via pppoe I see many messages "lcp timeout - restarting
> > > connection" (or something similar to that).  It takes a while for the
> > > connection to be restablished - about as long as it is connected.
> >
> > So this is not an event happening sometimes, but it's always in the reconnect
> > state? This is strange. Maybe your provider refuses to answer LCP echo
> > requests. Very strange, and sounds like a gross PPP violation. But let's
> > be constructive:
> >
> > You can check this with a simple source change:
> >
> > In sys/net/if_pppoe.c (about line 227 in -current, but you'll find it in 1.6
> > easily) you'll see this code:
> >
> >         sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_hdrlen = sizeof(struct ether_header) + PPPOE_HEADE$        sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_dlt = DLT_PPP_ETHER;
> >         sc->sc_sppp.pp_flags |= PP_KEEPALIVE |  /* use LCP keepalive */
> >                                 PP_NOFRAMING;   /* no serial encapsulation */
> >         sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_ioctl = pppoe_ioctl;
> >         IFQ_SET_MAXLEN(&sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_snd, IFQ_MAXLEN);
> >         IFQ_SET_READY(&sc->sc_sppp.pp_if.if_snd);
> >
> > You need to comment out the PP_KEEPALIVE flag here, so this two lines become:
> >
> >         sc->sc_sppp.pp_flags |= /* PP_KEEPALIVE | */
> >                                 PP_NOFRAMING;   /* no serial encapsulation */
> >
> > Please let me know if this helps you, I'll see how we can fix it properly
> > then.
> >
> > Martin
> >
>
> johnh...
>
>