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

[mike]

On 07/19/2014 07:09 AM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> 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.
>


DSL is *NOT* crappy technology. There *ARE* crappy dsl service provider 
implementations - especially, those using 'layer 2 handoff' / l2vpn / 
l2tpd / etc - those are typically used in a reseller situation where the 
ultimate ISP does not own the underlaying access network nor the dsl 
head end. But I do agree, the choice of client isn't going to fix those 
either.

And people, STOP USING USERSPACE PPPOE!

-ilc