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Date:      Thu, 10 May 2007 10:12:00 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>,  freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp is broken???
Message-ID:  <4642D3D0.3090007@freemail.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20070508172925.7ba09ee7@gumby.homeunix.com.>
References:  <463F2149.5030101@freemail.hu>	<NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBCEBLCCAA.bob@a1poweruser.com> <20070508172925.7ba09ee7@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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>   
>> The format of the statement to add
>> is ifconfig_xxxx=up where xxxx is the NIC's FBSD interface name used
>> by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file.
>> ee /etc/rc.conf      # add following statements 
>> ifconfig_xxxx=up
>>     
>
> I've not needed to do this,
>
>   
>> ifconfig_tun0="DHCP"    # get your ISP assigned IP address
>>     
>
> PPP has its own mechanism for getting an IP address and dns server
> addresses. You don't normally need to specify DHCP for the interface.
>   
I'm now totally confused. I tried this configuration also, but the 
connection still drops in every 3 hours. Can it be a problem with the 
ISP? I'm going to do a stress test with another computer to see if the 
ADSL line is stable or not.

Regards,

   Laszlo



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