Pfsense needs to be restartet in case of pppoe 24h disconnect

sullrich

When you enable this feature it is supposed to setup a cron entry. Do you see the entry in /etc/crontab?

morbus

I think it is the code underlying this that is broke not the cron job.

The PPPoE disconnect button has never worked for me on 2.0 (and 1.3) on embeded (never tried it on full).
When I click the disconnect button nothing happens and if I do get disconnected (I have no forced reset from my ISP) the button still says disconnect and when clicked has no effect. Just stays with disconnect as the text. The only way to get PPPoE to come up is to reboot.

I think (but haven't looked too hard) that the disconnect code is looking at the interface (ie xl0) and not the PPPoE adaptor.

mino

Yes there is a entry for the restart i think:

0       4       *       *       *       root    /etc/pppoerestart

i tried to start it by hand. I got an error:


# /etc/pppoerestart

Fatal error: Call to undefined function interfaces_wan_pppoe_restart() in /root/- on line 1

so that might be why it will not disconnect to a given time. But i hope that he also reestablish the link to my dsl provider if he looses it at any time.

eri--

try latest snapshot and report.

mino

Hi ermal,

same error occurs if try to restart it by hand with the latest snapshot.

Greetz,
mino

eri--

Yeah i am going to trace this cause it happened to me at my home installation on pppoe too.
I will come back with something later tomorrow.

Do you have anything in logs after mpd exits and it tries to restart it?!

sullrich

I believe this should be fixed now. Please try next snapshot cycle.

If you want to test now, replace the pppoe_reconfigure function in /etc/pppoe_restart with interface_reconfigure();

sullrich

PS: you need to click save on the wan interfaces configuration page to regenerate the /etc/pppoe_restart file..

eri--

As sullrich said retry with latest snapshot.

mino

Okay, i installed the latest snapshot. I saved the WAN interface many times. But the /etc/pppoerestart file is still the same and so the error still occurs.


#!/bin/sh
echo 'es_dyndns_reset(wan); ?>' | /usr/local/bin/php -q

eri--

The new file should be on /var/etc/pppoefile actually.
It should have interface_reconfigure in it.

mino

Okay can be executed but it wont restart the wan session, it just reload the filter (seen in the logs)


# cat /var/etc/pppoewanrestart
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/touch /tmp/filter_dirty
#

sullrich

Did you click save on the Interfaces -> WAN page?

The code is there…

define("CRON_PPPOE_CMD", "#!/bin/sh\necho '' | /usr/local/bin/php -q");

eri--

You are on an older snapshot. Try a new one.

mino

So I have now the latest snapshot:

2.0-ALPHA-ALPHA
built on Fri Nov 21 04:39:23 EST 2008
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE

Console:


# cat /var/etc/pppoewanrestart
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/touch /tmp/filter_dirty
#


#cat /etc/crontab
...
0	4	*	*	*	root	/etc/pppoerestart
0	4	*	*	*	root	/var/etc/pppoewanrestart
...

So you see still the same. And in my crontab are now two entries, i think the old entry and the new corrected one. I think i triggered the save routine now 3 times but same result.

And i recognized that if i save the wan configuration and aplly them the whole system is interuppted. I take up to 30 seconds until my box reacts on request (http, ssh and so on) to the box itself. I think a routine for resetting the interface or restarting the mpd daemon shut not block the whole system.

sullrich

First edit /etc/crontab and remove both of those reset entries.

Next update to the snapshot that will be ready about 2 hours from this post. Next click save on interfaces, wan.

Check the file in /conf/ (not /var/etc/). /var/ is a ramdisk on embedded and that file will be wiped out on a reboot.

mino

Okay i did what you said.

My /etc/crontab now look like that:

cat /etc/crontab

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#minute hour mday month wday who command

pfSense specific crontab entries

Created: November 29, 2008, 9:49 am

0 * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 newsyslog
1,31 0-5 * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 adjkerntz -a
1 3 1 * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.update_bogons.sh
*/60 * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -v -t 3600 sshlockout
1 1 * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /etc/rc.dyndns.update
*/60 * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -v -t 3600 virusprot
*/60 * * * * root /usr/bin/nice -n20 /usr/local/sbin/expiretable -t 3600 snort2c
*/5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/checkreload.sh
*/5 * * * * root /etc/ping_hosts.sh
*/140 * * * * root /usr/local/sbin/reset_slbd.sh
0 5 * * * root /etc/pppoerestart
0 4 * * * root /conf/pppoewanrestart

If possible do not add items to this file manually.

If you do so, this file must be terminated with a blank line (e.g. new line)

My reset time is set to 4 o'clock. I dunno why still there is a entry for 5 o'clock, it wasnt there before.

So today at 4 o'clock he triggered the script and reinitiate the pppoe connection. But after that the dnsmasq hung. He consumes up to 80% of the cpu usage and dont like to respond anymore. I killed the process and startet it again, it works now again. I think a bit of delay is needed after restarting the dnsmasq service. Because i also triggered the script(/conf/pppoewanrestart) by hand and the same problem occured. I got also a message back, but i think it has nothing to do with the dnsmasq problem:

/conf/pppoewanrestart

Warning: Missing argument 2 for services_dyndns_reset(), called in /root/- on line 1 and defined in /etc/inc/services.inc on line 438

sullrich

Okay this is due to Ermals changes (eri–). I'll leave this to him to fix.

eri--

Try next snapshot should be fixed.

nocer

Hello,

err…snap server has no new snaps since 5th. Can you kick him awake? :P

cheers,