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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:59:06 +0100
From:      Nejc Skoberne <nejc@skoberne.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Gregor Likar <gregor.likar@infrax.si>
Subject:   Restarting DSL connection without reboot?
Message-ID:  <455D6BCA.9070505@skoberne.net>

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Dear community,

I am having continuous problems with ADSL connections and FreeBSD servers.
I am running a few dozens of FreeBSD boxes and today in the morning a lot of
them were without internet connectivity. Looks like our provider had some
maintenance work or something.

What happened: the tech guy at one of the customers first rebooted the server
2 times and then he called me. We tried together:

1. first we tried to ping an internet IP address and the reply was "No
    buffer space available". After that we did "killall -9 ppp" until all the
    ppp processes died. After that we ran /etc/rc.d/ppp-user (it's a 5.3 box)
    again but the connection wouldn't come up (no route to host, when pinging).

2. After reboot everything worked as it should.

I really don't like to reboot servers as soon as they lose DSL connectivity.
Is there any "proper" way to reset the connection (network card?) so that the
connection restores without a reboot?

Previously I've been running Linux on these servers and at that time I didn't
have these problems - a reset of modem would always resolve the problem.

Mostly I am using rl network cards, if that's an helpful info, but somewhere
I also have sis and others.

My ppp.conf:

default:
  set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command
  set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0
SiOL:
  set device PPPoE:rl0
  set authname user
  set authkey pass
  set dial
  set login
  set redial 5 0
  add default HISADDR

My ppp.linkup:

MYADDR:
  !bg sh -c "/sbin/pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf"

My rc.conf (ppp entries):

ppp_enable="YES"
ppp_profile="SiOL"
ppp_mode="ddial"
ppp_nat="NO"

Thanks for your help,
Nejc

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