The kernel space pppoe plugin that comes with net-dialup/ppp-2.4.1-r14 seems to ignore his own config options "pppoe_ac_name", "pppoe_srv_name", "pppoe_hostuniq" and "pppoe_retransmit", in both server and client mode. Ignoring pppoe_restransmit (= number of retries) is especially annoying since the plugin uses an exponential backoff algorithm and with a base of 2 seconds and a hard-coded default of 10 retries it takes 2^11-2 = 2046 seconds = 34 minutes(!) until pppd exits or restarts (when using "persist"). Steps to reproduce: 0) Unplug ethernet cable from eth0. 1) Start your favorite packet sniffer on eth0. 2a) Start pppd (as root) with... $ pppd noauth debug nodetach plugin pppoe.so eth0 pppoe_retransmit 3 2b) Append pppoe_ac_name "test_ac" or/and pppoe_srv_name "test_srv" or/and pppoe_hostuniq "something_uniq" to 2a) Look at the packet dumps and you'll see that it ignores the options from 2b) and does not stop after 3 retries. Instead it keeps sending PADIs for the next 34 minutes. Version information: $ uname -sr; epm -q ppp rp-pppoe gcc glibc Linux 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 ppp-2.4.1-r14 rp-pppoe-3.5 gcc-3.3.1-r1 glibc-2.3.2-r1 Wojtek
i made the last commit for ppp, but i have absolutely no idea about this...
please try beta3 which now in portage....
did it work?
