if_pppoe: How to reconnect using CRON at given time?

stephenw10

Try running:
/etc/rc.interfaces_wan_configure opt2

Where opt2 is your pppoe interface. That will bring it down and back up.

ITSGS_

@stephenw10 Thank you. I will report back in about 20 hours. I set up a CRONJob. Will continue testing with the 25.03.b.20250610.1659.1500029 version, which was just released.

stephenw10

We will likely add this back to if_pppoe in a future version but I can't say when right now. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/16159

ITSGS_

@stephenw10 Thank you for adding this as feature request. A lot of people like using this option. Will report back tomorrow, if the workaround works. Might be helpful to add the workaround to the documentation. The question will probably raised from time to time.

ITSGS_

@stephenw10 Fiddeling around I found out that my ISP sticked me to a fixed IP-Adress. Thats pretty uncommon for this kind of tariff plan. When I get a dynamic IP again, I will try again and report back...

eagle61

@ITSGS_

With CE 2.7.2 and now 2.8.0 i do use as cronjob

/var/etc/pppoe_restart_pppoe0

w0w

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stephenw10

That only works if you're not using if_pppoe. That file doesn't exist for if_pppoe configurations.

fireodo

@stephenw10 said in if_pppoe: How to reconnect using CRON at given time?:

That only works if you're not using if_pppoe. That file doesn't exist for if_pppoe configurations.

Could this work?:

/usr/local/sbin/pfSctl -c 'interface reload wan'

stephenw10

Yes, I would expect that to. Though I haven't tested it. Yet...

stephenw10

Yup that also works:

[2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@m370.stevew.lan]/root: pppcfg pppoe0
	dev: lagg0 state: session
	sid: 0x12 PADI retries: 0 PADR retries: 0 time: 00:00:21
	sppp: phase network authproto auto authname "Test" peerproto auto 
[2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@m370.stevew.lan]/root: /usr/local/sbin/pfSctl -c 'interface reload opt2'
OK
[2.8.0-RELEASE][admin@m370.stevew.lan]/root: pppcfg pppoe0
	dev: lagg0 state: session
	sid: 0x7 PADI retries: 0 PADR retries: 0 time: 00:00:01
	sppp: phase network authproto auto authname "Test" peerproto auto