New if_pppoe module no logging in Status / System Logs / PPP?

slu

Hi,

we switched over to the new if_pppoe modul (2.8.0) and after a heavy thunderstorm last night our PPPoE connection goes down because the modem was faulty (overvoltage).

After replacing the modem nothing was logged in Status / System Logs / PPP so we guess there were more faults, tried three reboots, but it was curios there was no try to connect.

So we switched over to the old PPPoE module and the system start immediately to log and try to connect the PPPoE connection.

Aug 28 10:37:50 	ppp 	51938 	[wan] Bundle: Interface ng0 created
Aug 28 10:37:50 	ppp 	51938 	web: web is not running
Aug 28 10:37:50 	ppp 	51938 	process 51938 started, version 5.9
<enable old module> Aug 28 10:37:50 	ppp 	51938 	Multi-link PPP daemon for FreeBSD
<thunderstorm> Aug 27 11:01:28 	kernel 		if_pppoe: pppoe0: LCP keepalive timeout

Is it possible that the new if_pppoe don't log but try to connect?

stephenw10

Yes it doesn't log much of anything by default. You can check the status with: pppcfg pppoe0
Or you can enable debug output with ifconfig pppoe0 debug but that logs a lot!

The next version will have better and more refined logging options.

slu

@stephenw10 thanks for the feedback!