Re: PPPoE drops

[Mike Tancsa <mike_(_at_)_sentex_(_dot_)_net>]

At 10:29 AM 25/11/2004, Damian Gerow wrote:

> No.  The BAS devices -- which Bell Canada is replacing Redbacks with (I
> believe they're Juniper's, but I could be wrong) -- do not speak LQR.  It's
> a right PITA.

I use the following patch/hack on FreeBSD to force it to use old style LCP 
echos.  You can then enable LQR and it works really well and will 
automatically reconnect you should there be some transport issue.

--- lcp.c       Sat Aug 31 22:12:28 2002
+++ lcp.c.patch Fri Nov 21 19:50:07 2003
@@ -575,6 +575,11 @@
   log_Printf(LogLCP, "%s: LayerUp\n", fp->link->name);
   physical_SetAsyncParams(p, lcp->want_accmap, lcp->his_accmap);
   lqr_Start(lcp);
+
+
+  p->hdlc.lqm.method = LQM_ECHO;
+
+
   hdlc_StartTimer(&p->hdlc);
   fp->more.reqs = fp->more.naks = fp->more.rejs = lcp->cfg.fsm.maxreq * 3;