[nycbug-talk] openbsd in kernel pppoe stability

[pete wright]

On 9/1/05, Brad Schonhorst <bschonhorst at vcsnyc.org> wrote:
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> On Sep 1, 2005, at 11:04 AM, pete wright wrote:
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> On 9/1/05, Brad Schonhorst <bschonhorst at vcsnyc.org> wrote: 
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> On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:51 PM, pete wright wrote:
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> hey all,
>     i've been running my soekris box with openbsd to connect to my
> dsl router (which is in bridged mode) for my main 'net connect.
> i've been having *serious* connectivity problems, so bad in fact
> I've got a cron running every five min's to check my pppoe
> interface.  if it's down it bring's it back up (does the whole ppp
> authentication dance).  yuck!  i was assuming that in kernel pppoe
> would be better than using a userland implementation.  i'm hoping
> that i'm still correct, my first assumption is that covad sucks and
> so does my dsl router.  but before i waste a night on the phone
> with covad, has anyone had any stability issues with 3.7 and in
> kernel pppoe setups?  i'm using a real vanilia setup...pretty much
> strait from the man page.  nothing crazy going on in pf land
> either...some filtering and redirection.....
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> thx
> -p
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> Hmmm.... I've been using a userland ppp setup (also on a soekris box
> openbsd 3.5) for quite some time now and not had any issues...
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> cool, so I'll roll back to that in a bit and see how we do.  
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> I did some digging in the archives and sure enough there is a recent
> patch to -CURRENT addressing the same problem I'm seeing.  Sadly, it
> does not look like it's been backported to 3.7.
> Just to verify, were your troubles with the userland implementation or in
> kernel?  I'm just curious for when I get around to upgrading.
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> -b 


my current issues are with 3.7 running pppoe in kernel.  It seems that
covad is doing something wonky and resetting my connection throughout
the day.  There is a patch in -CURRENT (soon to be 3.8) that addresses
this issue with the in-kernel pppoe implementation and seems to work
well from what i've heard.  I'm probably going to move to the userland
implementation tonight to see how it goes.

-pete 

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