2.6.0-testX and pppd/pppoe stuck after connecting
Hello,
Ever since I upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.6.0-test? (now -test8), I have been encountering problems with my pppd/pppoe setup. Specifically, right after the ppp0 interface is brought up, and several packets go through that interface (4-5 packets RX/TX), no more packets are transmitted until I restart pppd and reconnect to my ISP. ping www.google.com will report 100% packet loss, and I cannot see the TX packet count on ppp0 increasing. Nothing suspicious appears in ppp.log. More often than not, I have to reconnect multiple times until at last a working connection is established.
I may have not included all required information, but I don't know what might be useful in diagnosing this problem (this knowledge would possibly let me correct it without posting). I believe it is kernel-related because with 2.4.x everything works fine in the same circumstances. The software versions are: pppd version 2.4.1, pppoe version 3.3 (from roaringpenguin.com)
I would be grateful if you CC'ed me in replies.
Best regards -
Jan Ploski
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Ever since I upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.6.0-test? (now -test8), I have been encountering problems with my pppd/pppoe setup. Specifically, right after the ppp0 interface is brought up, and several packets go through that interface (4-5 packets RX/TX), no more packets are transmitted until I restart pppd and reconnect to my ISP. ping www.google.com will report 100% packet loss, and I cannot see the TX packet count on ppp0 increasing. Nothing suspicious appears in ppp.log. More often than not, I have to reconnect multiple times until at last a working connection is established.
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I may have not included all required information, but I don't know what might be useful in diagnosing this problem (this knowledge would possibly let me correct it without posting). I believe it is kernel-related because with 2.4.x everything works fine in the same circumstances. The software versions are: pppd version 2.4.1, pppoe version 3.3 (from roaringpenguin.com)
FWIW, I'm sending this mail using pppd 2.4.1 and Roaring Penguin pppoe 3.5 on Linux 2.6.0-test8. Occasionally, maybe one out of 10 times or less, the connect times out, but I've attributed that to my ISP.
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Måns Rullgård [email protected]
Quoted 1 line · Jan Ploski
I have been encountering problems with my pppd/pppoe setup.
I've never had any problems with pppoed in 2.[56]. (I am connected through it right now).
There's one pitfall however: at least in the (somewhat rotten) SuSE 7.0 based setup I use, /etc/rc.d/pppoed explicitly checks the kernel version. Since 2.6 perfectly works with the 2.4 settings, I just had to change the case "2.4.*)" into "2.[456].*)"
Tim