Re: PPPoE drops

[Jason McIntyre <jasonmcintyre_(_at_)_f2s_(_dot_)_com>]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:52:15AM -0500, Damian Gerow wrote:
> 
> Essentially, the tun interface just stops working.  ppp is still running,
> the interface is still configured, but nothing traverses the link.  This is
> the only log I see:
> 
>     tun0: Error: ip_Input: deflink: wrote 1496, got Message too long
> 
> I /do/ have my MTU/MRU set to 1448, so seeing this note about 1496 is a bit
> odd.  And to bring the tunnel back up, I just have to kill ppp, destroy
> tun0, then re-start ppp.  The average session length seems to be in the area
> of a few hours, which is ridiculously short.  The official termination
> reason, as seen from my ISPs POV, is "Connection Closed".
> 

do you have anything in your setup which is different to that described
in pppoe(8)? also, why mtr/mru=1448? 1492 should be correct for pppoe.

does enabling lqr help?

jmc