ok,

i removed a nasty ide hard disk (left on this machine because of laziness
but obviously defective) and now about 2 days have passed and I didn't
discover any unrecoverable pppoe disconnection; my longest adsl uptime fo=
r
such a long time.
"Bad tempered" hard disks seem to really be able to damage pppoe links:
terrifying news!

Thanks for your help, both of you,

NB: there are still some minor annoyances left (noisy line or
misbehaviored ISP? i'll check thme both) but now it does correctly auto
reconnect;

<citation de=3D"Mirko Thiesen">
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, J.Lorec wrote:
>
>> > I once had a similar problem and wrote the following two very short
>> shell
>>
>> Of course this is just a quick & dirty workaround but it could help in
>> some
>> way. Thanks anyway.
>> Just a question: you said you had once this problem; how did you solve
>> this?
>> Hardware, ISP, OS (I do really like netbsd) or even phone line
>> migration?
>
> It was really strange: The IDE hard drive of that machine was failing.
> NetBSD complained about lost interrupts and discovered soft errors.
> Sometimes it degraded communications to that drive to PIO Mode. When th=
e
> errors occured, everything was still working - except the Internet
> connection. The solution was to replace the bad hard drive.
>
> Until that time I had seen other strange errors in conjunction with har=
d
> disk errors, but nothing ever had any impact on the PPPoE link.
>
> Bye, K&K,
> T-Zee
> --
> thiesi@NetWork23.Sytes.NET ---- NetBSD: Power to the people!
> Tel.: ++49-(0)171-416 05 09 -- Fax: ++49-(0)171-134 16 05 09
> Mirko Thiesen, P.O. Box 26 03 54, D-13413 Berlin, W. Germany
>              "We're with you all the way, mostly"
>
>


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