Thanks a lot.

I will make some tests this evening.
> pppoe automagically reconnects

So if my ip change I still have to reload pf ? using ppp.linkdown ?
Xavier.
2008/7/15 Henning Brauer :
> * 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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