Oh, i'm "lucky", shortly after starting "tcpdump -i eth1.3902 pppoed" there was another disconnect: Thu Apr 23 11:44:13 2020 daemon.notice pppd[10756]: Modem hangup tcpdump output: listening on eth1.3902, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes 11:44:09.749322 PPPoE PADO [Service-Name] [AC-Name "SIMB_TABOR_BNG1"] [Host-Uniq 0x44************long_number******************************AA] [AC-Cookie ".5b************v"] 11:44:09.754297 PPPoE PADS [ses 0x1] [Service-Name] [Host-Uniq 0x44*******************long_number*********************************AA] 11:44:13.115312 PPPoE PADT [ses 0x1] 11:44:13.126422 PPPoE PADT [ses 0x1] [Host-Uniq 0x00002A04] [AC-Cookie 0xED****************************75] tcpdump: pcap_loop: The interface went down 4 packets captured 22 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel The ifconfig packet counter for the VLAN interface eth1.3902 is reset, compare to values in quested message below, this is th eoutpu a few minutes after the reconnect: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:3D:C7:90:CE:ED inet6 addr: fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe90:ceed/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:24193753 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3 frame:0 TX packets:12513809 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4171215264 (3.8 GiB) TX bytes:2485973 (2.3 MiB) Interrupt:5 eth1.3902 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:3D:C7:90:CE:ED inet6 addr: fe80::c63d:c7ff:fe90:ceed/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:255930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:42015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:126494373 (120.6 MiB) TX bytes:25853728 (24.6 MiB) PS: The IPv6 address is according to standards, ignore that question. On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 13:12, David Balažic <xerces9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One more thing I noticed: > > the packet count for eth1 is much higher than for eth1.3902: > > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:XX:XX:XX:XX:ED > inet6 addr: fe80::c6xx:xxff:fexx:xxed/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:23147175 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:3 frame:0 > TX packets:12334230 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:3553425618 (3.3 GiB) TX bytes:4237688514 (3.9 GiB) > Interrupt:5 > > eth1.3902 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr C4:XX:XX:XX:XX:ED > inet6 addr: fe80::c6xx:xxff:fexx:xxed/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:682037 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:91218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:373700490 (356.3 MiB) TX bytes:26176360 (24.9 MiB) > > As if the eth1.3902 is somehow reset every now and then. I'll keep my eye on it. > > > Also: the IPv6 address (the part derived from hwaddr) starts with c6 > instead of c4 like the actual hw address. Is that normal? > > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 12:37, David Balažic <xerces9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Some more info: > > > > - the connect time is random: > > # logread | grep "Connect time" > > Wed Apr 22 16:42:18 2020 daemon.info pppd[7960]: Connect time 1742.8 minutes. > > Wed Apr 22 19:13:03 2020 daemon.info pppd[9563]: Connect time 150.7 minutes. > > Thu Apr 23 09:38:31 2020 daemon.info pppd[9884]: Connect time 865.5 minutes. > > > > > > > > - the assigned IP address is different on each connection > > > > > > - logs > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 00:00, James Carlson <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On 2020-04-22 13:45, David Balažic wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I have a router running openwrt connected to a GPON ONT, running a > > > > PPPoE connection (hw details below). > > > > > > This looks to be (possibly) a PPPoE failure, though there's nothing > > > interesting in the log messages provided. If there were an interesting > > > log message, it would almost certainly come somewhere (perhaps even > > > *minutes*) before that initial "Modem hangup" message. > > > > Nothing there: > > > > Thu Apr 23 08:59:02 2020 daemon.info hostapd: wlan0: STA > > 58:XX:XX:XX:XX:b9 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to inactivity > > (timer DEAUTH/REMOVE) > > Thu Apr 23 09:38:31 2020 daemon.notice pppd[9884]: Modem hangup > > > > I'll try packet capture next. > > > > Regards, > > David