How to restart PPoE internet connection ??
Jad
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Tue Jan 25 23:30:02 UTC 2005
Vincent Trouilliez Wrote:
> I have a cable internet access. It's pretty unreliable, every other
> week, it drops the connection for either a few minutes, or a few hours.
>
> The only way to know that the connection is back, is to try connecting.
>
> But my connection starts automatically at boot, and there is no way I
> am
> going to reboot every 5 minutes just to check if the connection is back
> or not.
>
> So how should I proceed to restart my PPPoE connection "by hand" ?
>
> On the command line, I tried "pon", but then a "ifconfig" showed that
> ppp0 was still not (re)created.
>
> What is the recommended, proper/clean way of trying to re-connect ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Vince, hoping to change ISP soon and come back to ADSL ! ;o)
>
>
>
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try
/etc/init.d/network restart
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Jad
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