pppoe sessions time out if upstream ADSL service fails

[iforbes@…]

The settings in

/etc/ppp/providers/ebox-ppp-eth1

allow the pppoe session to time out after about 10 minutes in the event of a failure of the upstream ADSL service. There is already an option "persist" but to ensure the pppoe connection comes back up after an interruption of the upstream service, it is necessary to have an option "maxfail 0".

This can be rectified by adding a line containing

maxfail 0

immediately after the line "persist" in

/usr/share/ebox/stubs/network/dsl-provider.mas

Thanks

Ian

[jacalvo@…]

Hi Ian,

We already had this fixed in a branch which is not merged yet, but thanks for reporting it anyway.

We will greatly appreciate if you would like to the following package built from that branch and give us feedback:

 http://people.zentyal.org/~josh/ebox-network_2.0.9-1+pppoe1_all.deb

(You can install it with dpkg -i)

Thanks in advance.

[jacalvo@…]

This is already fixed in Zentyal 2.1, for 2.0 you can use the above package and eventually we could evaluate its official backport if its confirmed to not give problems and it's demanded by the 2.0 users.