It seems when I lose a PPPOE connection, openwrt doesn't reconnect.

However I'm not entirely sure if this is the issue because when I check the status pppoe page using xwrt, it shows that I'm still connected with the same ip address as I was before the net went down (indicating the pppoe never got disconnected in the first place). I am unable to make any pings or access any internet based address/ip.

Is there a way to avoid this? My internet connection has been flaky the tech thinks its a bad modem so I have a new one on the way, but I would at least attempt to avoid this issue while I wait for the new one.

Thanks,
Pyther

How can I config pppoe without webif in the trunk?

In the WAN section of /etc/config/network. Below is a basic example. There are more options for PPPoE but I don't remember them.

uci set network.wan.proto=pppoe
uci set network.wan.username=<pppoe_psername>
uci set network.wan.password=<pppoe_password>
uci commit network
ifup wan

Ty so much forum2008, but is there un updated documentation about that (=trunk) ? That one on the site seems old

Read and understand the source code. That's the best documentation you can find

Sure thanks for hijacking my thread :-/

pyther, are you using the pppoe keepalive option?  Might search the forum for more details on that...

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I am using the pppoe keepalive option, although I searched the forum and didn't seem to find much useful information. I searched using the term "keepalive"

Anyways thanks for your reply

have you gotten any further on this issue? i am facing the same problem...

setting option keepalive 2 seems not to make any difference. the router just doesn't connect on it's own. not even on startup...

if i run "ifup wan" the router connects immediately. running 7.09 on a WRT-54GL with kernel 2.6 (no need for WiFi).

in general: where do i find documentation for all the pppoe settings? for example in the forum i found: "option persist" as well as "option ppp_redial       'persist'" and alike.

please help!

(Last edited by exactt on 13 Jun 2008, 09:18)

I did not. I ended up getting a new modem (as the one I had broke, and now the modem takes care of the pppoe connection)

Sorry I couldn't be of more help

You can look for more docs here: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/network