* Xavier Millihs-Lacroix  [2008-07-15 09:02]:

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> Sometimes when I boot a soekris box (net5501) - OpenBSD 4.3, I didn't get

> each times an ip address for the pppoe0 link.

> This is a problem as I can connect to this box only remotely.

> I didn't find on the documentation how to reconnect automatically if the

> link goes down.

pppoe automagically reconnects.
many ISPs have some logic to deny you from opening two ppp sessions,

so by the time your box reboots the old sessions has not yet timed

out. You can't do all that much but waiting for the old session to

expire, pppoe will retry all the time.
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