[RP-PPPoE] rp-pppoe - would you use it for a companies commercial connection?

[David F. Skoll]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 20:10:34 +1000
Paul Young <paul at arkig.com> wrote:

> I'll start with this - it does not appear to be very stable.

I've used it for years at home, at work, and at dozens of customer
sites and have never had any problems with it.

> The line that concerns me above is

> Jul 19 02:46:44 computer pppoe[15217]: read (asyncReadFromPPP):
> Session 29557: Input/output error

Why does that concern you?  That's just the UNIX error code returned
by the read system call when the modem hangs up.

> So much so I am thinking of removing these from config

> LCP_INTERVAL
> LCP_FAILURE

Bad idea.  Your connection will hang silently instead of a problem
being detected.

> and setting up my own checks on the link to the service provider. Or
> get a Cisco.....

It won't help.  DSL is crappy technology and the specific PPPoE client
is unlikely to make much difference.

Regards,

David.