Re: PPPoE problem: "Too many LQR packets lost"

From: Stephen McKay (smckay_at_internode.on.net)
Date: 07/25/04

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    To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:44:12 +1000

    On Saturday, 24th July 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote:

    >On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 12:47:26 +1000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you
    >wrote:
    >
    >>I found Mike Tancsa's patch but didn't like it. I rolled my own, which
    >>seems to be working so far. It works by switching from LQR to simple
    >>echo requests when LQR times out.
    >
    >I feel so unliked ;-)

    :-)

    >Seriously though, mine was a very ugly hack to
    >get things working again for me. Most of the DSL aggregators here
    >are Juniper ERXes which do not play nice with FreeBSD's PPPoE.

    I think I would have just taken your hack if it had been in lqr_Setup()
    where hdlc.lqm.method is initially set. As it was I was in a funny mood
    and wanted to write my own hack. :-)

    >>(This is a patch against ppp in FreeBSD 4.8. I haven't tried the ppp in
    >>-current yet as -current is still a wild and woolly place that scares me.)
    >
    >I think Brian re worked the LQR portion at least from looking at the
    >commit messages

    If I'm looking at the same stuff as you, he's reworked the LQR code to
    be more accurate with byte counts and such. I don't see any changes that
    address our "LQR fails completely" problems.

    Stephen.
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