Hello Michael, small follow up. Taking the link down on my site seems to reset the pppoe session on the remote site. This symptom was probably triggered by the reboot of the server. -- (generate-03) [~] ping -c 5 172.17.0.254 PING 172.17.0.254 (172.17.0.254) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 172.17.0.254 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4092ms (generate-03) [~] poff; ifconfig eth1 down; sleep 10; ifconfig eth1 up; pon dsl-provider Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. (generate-03) [~] ping -c 5 172.17.0.254 PING 172.17.0.254 (172.17.0.254) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 172.17.0.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=41.5 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.0.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=41.1 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.0.254: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=41.4 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.0.254: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=41.2 ms 64 bytes from 172.17.0.254: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=41.4 ms --- 172.17.0.254 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 41.194/41.377/41.579/0.148 ms -- Also my ssh session survives, which it previously did not. Thank you again. Cheers, Thomas -- 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