Re: PPPoE drops

[Damian Gerow <dgerow_(_at_)_afflictions_(_dot_)_org>]

Thus spake Pierre Groulx (groupie02_(_at_)_gmail_(_dot_)_com) [25/11/04 13:18]:
: I have an ADSL connection that comes from Bell Canada. It worked well
: for months then I had to disable LQR. That ran fine for another couple
: of months.

Your first problem is Bell Canada.  They like to fiddle with stuff.  And by
'fiddle' I mean 'drastically change the underlying technologies and not tell
anyone'.

: The line started to drop a couple of times per week. I had to change
: the MTU to 1448 in order to keep the line up. Again, a few quiet
: months...
: 
: In July of this year, the connection started to go down every couple
: of hours. I've tested many different scenarios and ressetting the MTU
: to 1492 is what got me back in business.

You don't happen to have any log samples or other such things, do you?  I'm
quite surprised to see that the MTU/MRU has any sort of effect on line
stability.  Last I checked, MTU/MRU was an IP thing, which is a few layers
up from PPPoE.

  - Damian