15 July 2008 c. 14:57:58 Henning Brauer wrote:

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> * 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.

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> 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.

Search for PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS kernel option. I have such

provider, and this option helps a lot.
BTW: Is there any point to translate this knob to interface linkN flag?
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  Best wishes,

    Vadim Zhukov