help plz! cannot seem to stay connected

tonyh · 05-22-2002, 01:30 PM

I am not sure what is wrong but my pppoe adsl connection seems to be reconnecting constantly. I dont have this problem in windows. I am using rpppoe in redhat 7.3. My connection seems to be renewing itself automatically for some reason. Any ideas?

DavidPhillips · 05-22-2002, 03:04 PM

what's in the log files?

tonyh · 05-22-2002, 03:16 PM

sorry david, I dont even know where the log files are located.

DavidPhillips · 05-22-2002, 04:18 PM

try this ...

tail -f /var/log/messages

then you will see the messages as they are written to the file

if you want more verbose messages put debug in the config file.

Rashkae · 05-23-2002, 09:09 AM

When you installed RP PPPOE, there was an option to configure the idle timeout. If you set that to 0, automatic idle disconnects shouldn't happen.

tonyh · 05-23-2002, 09:36 AM

i didnt 'install' rp pppoe, I just ran adsl-setup. is that what you mean?

DavidPhillips · 05-23-2002, 09:54 AM

that's the same thing,

but is it disconnecting only when you are idle or all the time.

what I did with mine was put a command in rc.local like this..

ping -i 30 111.111.111.111 > /dev/null &

using your isps gateway server ip instead of 111.111.111.111

tonyh · 05-23-2002, 02:04 PM

well I had a problem and had to re-install. Last time I made the ppp0 interface in kde under internet configuration. How can I create the ppp0 interface from the shell? I tried running adsl-setup but it doesnt craete it nor does it create a pppoe.conf file.