Topic: DLS/PPPoE

[Serge Dutremble]

I just converted from a cable connection (Rogers at home) to a DSL highspeed connection (Sympatico HSE).  Cable connection was working fine but was often very slow.  Server configuration itself was not changed when going to DSL.  External access to Web (http), webmail (https) and SSH was enabled and working fine.

The SME5U2 config was easy and straight forward and worked much faster on download.  little difference on upload.  I could not test external internet access from home but all seemed to work fine, including DDNS update (using the ppp0 interface settings instead of the eth1 settings).  This brings my first surprise:

Initially from Cable, I had two ethernet adapters reported by ifconfig, an internal eth0 with a private IP, and an external eth1 with a DHCP provided IP.

From DLS, I had a number of interfaces returned by ifconfig:
Internal ethernet eth0 with a private IP
external eth1 WITH NO IP
ppp0 with external DHCP provided IP
vpnsomething with same IP as ppp0

I also installed the system status add-on to the SME5 and I get 3 or 4 more graphs about some unknown interfaces (no name listed) and no activity reported.

Now, the DSL connection was fast and working fine last night (I just installed it last night).  However, it seemed to have stopped working overnight for no reason.  Sympatico tech support tells me all is fine and that it must be my own config that is at fault.

Unfortunately, I am at work and currently have no net access to my server (dsl seems to be not working, ping, ssh web and webmail are not responsive) so I won't find until later on tonight what the server status is.

Is PPPoE configured to keep alive the connection?  Sympatico tech support tells me that my IP will change every time I connect!  If it is kept alive, I should keep the same IP for a while.  DDNS would fix this anyway so I am not worried too much.  At the very least, my DDNS upgrade should re-connect anyway if PPPoE does not.  Am I correct here?

Has anyone had any problem where the connection drops by itself?

Is the Sympatico HSE DSL connection allowing external connections from the internet if you run a server like SME5?

Please advise or comment.

Serge.

[Terry Brummell]

I don't know about everything you mention, but I can tell you that my neighbour has SME v5 running on Sympatico HSE here in Ottawa and he has absolutly no problems with it.  He uses dyndns.org for a dynamic host and never has to restart any services.  I'll have him take a look at your post and see if he can help you.

Terry

[Serge Dutremble]

I got home tonight and found my server crashed!

The log seem to indicate that the DSL changed IP around 6:15 this morning and after some negotiation, it seemed to be successful.

However, my system restarted twice after that for no aparent reason that I can figure out.  The log entries do not appear to be unusual as they relate to DHCP and DNS.

At 6:00 tonight, I found the system crashed. On restart, I had to run fsck manually on all mounted file systems.  All was fine afterwards.

I will monitor it tomorrow (working home tomorrow) and will post results as necessary.

Thanks for your response.

Serge.