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

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 07/25/04

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    Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:42:01 -0700
To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>

    Stephen McKay wrote:

    >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.
    >>

    any thoughts as to why?

    FreeBSD's pppoe is going through a little development at the moment..
    Now would be a good time to get it fixed..

    >>
    >>
    >
    >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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