dsl connection issue
 

hi every one! i love ubuntu but i seem to have a problem that won't go away. when i reboot my machine my dsl connection is up and i can browse immediatley. i can use the connection all day long. but when i wake up in the morning my connection is lost and i have to reboot again or deactivate and reactivate networking manually. i think there my be some kind of inactivity issue with verizon's servers but i'm not sure how to manually configure my connection. "persist" is already in my /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file. here is the output:

noipdefault
defaultroute
replacedefaultroute
hide-password
#lcp-echo-interval 30
#lcp-echo-failure 4
noauth
persist
mtu 1492
usepeerdns
plugin rp-pppoe.so eth0





user "my-user-name"

also, i noticed that after i reboot and my connection is fine, plog gives this:

Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Terminating on signal 15.
Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Connect time 0.3 minutes.
Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Sent 4237 bytes, received 17924 bytes.
Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Couldn't increase MTU to 1500
Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Couldn't increase MRU to 1500
Feb 24 14:23:22 localhost pppd[28229]: Connection terminated.
Feb 24 14:23:23 localhost pppd[28229]: Exit.
Feb 24 14:23:40 localhost pppd[28401]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Feb 24 14:23:40 localhost pppd[28401]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2

this looks bad but i'm confused because i can browse and get email and everything. any suggestions? thanks.