DSL connection drops in and out

[ljeffries_linux]

My DSL connection drops every 30 seconds or so. I don't lose my connection but this on/off thing is annoying.

Redhat 7.3

This is my PPPoE ifcfg file:

USERCTL='yes'
BOOTPROTO='dialup'
DEVICE='ppp0'
TYPE='xDSL'
ONBOOT='yes'
PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid
FIREWALL=NONE
PING=.
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=20
LCP_FAILURE=3
LCP_INTERVAL=20
CLAMPMSS=1412
CONNECT_POLL=6
CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60
SYNCHRONOUS='no'
DEFROUTE='yes'
PERSIST='no'
ETH='eth1'
PROVIDER='dsl.net'
USER='myname@dsl.net'
PEERDNS='yes'

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by ljeffries_linux
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=20 My guess would be that it's dropping out every 20 seconds, not every 30. Since you have the timeout set to 20 seconds and all. :p

See if increasing that helps. You may have to restart the PPPoE service (if there is one), or the pppd daemon (if there isn't anything PPPoE specific). Or just reboot.