... ciao: : on "1-28-2011" "Juergen Beisert" writ: : Jan 28 16:05:21 star pppd[249]: Starting link : Jan 28 16:05:21 star pppd[249]: error sending pppoe packet: Network is down "Network is down" seems to make more sense than anything on your end. i moved to a higher speed, and new modem from qwest.net. i had originally purchased a non wireless modem, but received a wireless device anyway. i fought that through two (2) different modems of the same model, and finally got the modem i'd originally wanted to buy. during that process, i was running a cron at 1 minute intervals to chech, and log errors, and those results were substantial. with the final device, the cron has switched to 5 minutes, with few events being handled. the long and short of it, from experience, sometimes, it really is their fault ... -- ... it's not what you see , but in stead , notice ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html