automatic pppoe connection

For a long time, I have had my pppoe (rp-pppoe-3.5-2) connection come up
automatically when my computer starts up, as part of the network
startup script in RedHat 9.0.

Recently, the network script stopped being able to bring up the ppp
connection automatically. I started logging messages to syslog, and I
see this:

Aug 3 21:03:12 watchtower network: Bringing up interface ppp0: failed
Aug 3 21:03:17 watchtower pppd[415]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Aug 3 21:03:17 watchtower pppd[415]: Connection terminated.
Aug 3 21:03:21 watchtower pppoe[416]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Aug 3 21:03:21 watchtower pppd[415]: Exit.

I have googled on the error messages contained in this excerpt and found
many, many varying responses, none of which have been of much help (so
far). Further complicating things is the fact that if I log in and
bring up the connection manually ('ifup ppp0' from the command line),
everything works fine. How could the script fail during startup, but
work when I start it manually?

Thanks,
Brian

can you please check you rc.local file for that pppoe entry? the
ethernet interface has to be up before the pppd connects to pppoe
server. you have to check up the /sysconfig/networking* files for
details.



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raqueeb hassan
congo (drc)

In comp.os.linux.networking tonic889 wrote:

> Aug 3 21:03:17 watchtower pppd[415]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
> Aug 3 21:03:17 watchtower pppd[415]: Connection terminated.
> Aug 3 21:03:21 watchtower pppoe[416]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
> Aug 3 21:03:21 watchtower pppd[415]: Exit.
>
> I have googled on the error messages contained in this excerpt and found
> many, many varying responses, none of which have been of much help

These messages mean that your pppoe client isn't receiving any answer
from your provider's access point or if the problem is on your side that
it can't reach it.

Think of what could have been changed in your config. Have you installed
any updates which could have altered your init scripts? Is the Ethernet
card connected to your modem brought up first?


Christian

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