Hello everybody, I got a PPPoE uplink to a big Dutch internet service provider, and I am having stability issues. My uplink is going down for very short times but it happens several times a day. I just had major network move and the physical copper line changed so I think I can rule out bad coper connections now. I had the same issues on the old location though. The modem I use is a DrayTek Vigor 3100V (latest firmware) in PPPoE bridge mode (1) it behaves complete transparent, so I let the Linux server do as much as possible. I am wondering what I am doing wrong, is there something I should change on the software side? Should I change the modem configuration? Stop using PPPoE? Please see the attachment for the configuration and debug information. 1) http://imagebin.ca/img/aSt5Wc-c.png Any help is appreciated, Best regards, Jelle
------------------------------------------------------------------------ # pppoe uplink goes down several times a day, what is going wrong? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # grep -i pppd /var/log/syslog Dec 21 06:37:24 sammy pppd[2954]: No response to 4 echo-requests Dec 21 06:37:24 sammy pppd[2954]: Serial link appears to be disconnected. Dec 21 06:37:24 sammy pppd[2954]: Connect time 2681.4 minutes. Dec 21 06:37:24 sammy pppd[2954]: Sent 198282561 bytes, received 314194095 bytes. Dec 21 06:37:30 sammy pppd[2954]: Connection terminated. Dec 21 06:37:30 sammy pppd[2954]: Modem hangup Dec 21 06:37:50 sammy pppd[2954]: PPP session is 6 Dec 21 06:37:50 sammy pppd[2954]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 21 06:37:50 sammy pppd[2954]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth5 Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: PAP authentication succeeded Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: peer from calling number 00:50:7F:DB:D3:48 authorized Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: local IP address 188.201.xxx.xxx Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: remote IP address 62.12.4.28 Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: primary DNS address 213.75.63.36 Dec 21 06:37:54 sammy pppd[2954]: secondary DNS address 213.75.63.70 Dec 21 08:32:56 sammy pppd[2954]: No response to 4 echo-requests Dec 21 08:32:56 sammy pppd[2954]: Serial link appears to be disconnected. Dec 21 08:32:56 sammy pppd[2954]: Connect time 115.1 minutes. Dec 21 08:32:56 sammy pppd[2954]: Sent 10170461 bytes, received 28994956 bytes. Dec 21 08:33:02 sammy pppd[2954]: Connection terminated. Dec 21 08:33:02 sammy pppd[2954]: Modem hangup Dec 21 08:33:22 sammy pppd[2954]: PPP session is 6 Dec 21 08:33:22 sammy pppd[2954]: Using interface ppp0 Dec 21 08:33:22 sammy pppd[2954]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth5 Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: PAP authentication succeeded Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: peer from calling number 00:50:7F:DB:D3:48 authorized Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: local IP address 188.201.xxx.xxx Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: remote IP address 62.12.4.28 Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: primary DNS address 213.75.63.36 Dec 21 08:33:27 sammy pppd[2954]: secondary DNS address 213.75.63.70 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # grep -i e1000 /var/log/syslog Dec 21 06:35:19 sammy kernel: [557976.760139] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Down Dec 21 06:35:21 sammy kernel: [557978.616469] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX Dec 21 06:35:24 sammy kernel: [557982.236149] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Down Dec 21 06:35:27 sammy kernel: [557984.468468] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX Dec 21 08:30:41 sammy kernel: [564898.420139] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Down Dec 21 08:30:42 sammy kernel: [564900.372459] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX Dec 21 08:30:46 sammy kernel: [564903.892134] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Down Dec 21 08:30:48 sammy kernel: [564906.156460] e1000: eth5 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider # Minimalistic default options file for DSL/PPPoE connections noipdefault defaultroute replacedefaultroute hide-password #lcp-echo-interval 30 #lcp-echo-failure 4 noauth persist #mtu 1492 maxfail 0 holdoff 20 plugin rp-pppoe.so eth5 usepeerdns user "KPN1" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # ifconfig -a ppp ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:188.201.124.57 P-t-P:62.12.4.28 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:614021 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:502294 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:691562515 (659.5 MiB) TX bytes:67199257 (64.0 MiB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ # cat /etc/network/interfaces auto dsl-provider iface dsl-provider inet ppp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth5 up provider dsl-provider ------------------------------------------------------------------------