Re: [tlug] ppp hangup

[xian <ccd@example.com>]

On Thursday 22 May 2003 23:43, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> Seems like this is not my lucky week.
>
> My pppd+pppoe connection keeps dying sometimes and it doesn't restart
> itself, though I have all the suggested magic words in my options (like
> persist and holdoff).
>
> These are the logs:
>
> May 22 14:24:58 siliconium kernel: PPPIOCDETACH file->f_count=3
> May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppoe[202]: Sent PADT
> May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Connection terminated.
> May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Connect time 3217.5 minutes.
> May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Sent 34947274 bytes, received
> 1532953341 bytes.May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't release
> PPP unit: Invalid argument
> May 22 14:25:13 siliconium pppd[200]: Serial connection established.
> May 22 14:25:13 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't create new ppp unit:
> Inappropriate ioctl for device
> May 22 14:25:28 siliconium pppd[200]: Serial connection established.
> May 22 14:25:28 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't create new ppp unit:
> Inappropriate ioctl for device
>
> It seems to me that pppd tries to reconnect indeed, but can't. The only
> solution I have right now is to check for the connection from a cron
> script and restart.
> I did google, and it threw me quite a few hits (e.g.
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.3/1040.html) with this
> problem, but nobody seems to know what's going on.
> My kernel is 2.4.20-rc2, ppp is 2.4.1.uus-5.
>
> Maybe I should go back to potato...
>
Not being a PPP/PPOE expert, or any type of actual expert... that error sounds 
a lot like DHCP client gettting stuck with a lease. Sounds to my unexpert 
ears like your modem and/or PPPD won't release the IP address.

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