On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Henning Brauer wrote:
> * 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.

Just put "ifconfig pppoe0 down" in your rc.shutdown script and this

problem should be solved.

I wrote a short piece of code for rc.local, that was waiting for the pppoe

link to come up, before I discoverd that.
Kind regards,

   Markus