[Gllug] ADSL Woes

[Simon A. Boggis]

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 10:41, Alain Williams wrote:
> Sometimes the line dies, fault in the BT network/ISP problem/...
> Once the fault has cleared, it is easy to restart by unplugging (USB) the modem for
> a few seconds and reloading the ppp, etc, s/ware.

[I'm using the userland speedtouch 1.1 drivers]

Mine survives without any intervention - I have seen it come and go
occasionally when plus.net were doing maintenance and when one of us
disconnected the phone line accidently, but the following options have
always brought it back automatically (the crucial ones are
persist,holdoff,maxfail and maybe the lcp-echo-failure).

from /etc/ppp/peers/provider (in debian):

  noipdefault 
  defaultroute

  pty "/usr/local/sbin/pppoa3 -m 1 -c -vpi 0 -vci 38"
  sync

  user SOMEUSERNAME
  noauth

  noaccomp
  nopcomp  
  noccp
  novj

  persist
  holdoff 300
  maxfail 0

  hide-password
  lcp-echo-interval 20
  lcp-echo-failure 3
  connect /bin/true
  mtu 1458

>From memory, if you need to unplug the modem to "reset" it you're not
doing things quite in the right order - I use the /etc/init.d script
provided with the speedtouch 1.1 userland driver, and it can happily
restart the modem as many times as you please without any need for
unplugging it, so a simple /etc/init.d/speedtouch restart would suffice.

I must say I really rather like my stingray - it's been reliable (for
me), it was very cheap compared to adsl routers at the time I bought it,
it has no naff built-in operating system containing silly exploits and
it saved me buying an extra ethernet card for my router/firewall box. 

Oh and it looks nice/weird, and winks at you in technicolour (:
 
Simon



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