Bug #9148
closed
PPPoE over a VLAN fails to reconnect.
Added by Steve Wheeler over 5 years ago.
Updated over 4 years ago.
Affected Architecture:
All
Description
In some situations PPPoE fails to reconnect after an upstream outage or making a change locally. The system file logs:
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 4
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] PPPoE: can't connect "[1b]:"->"mpd17126-0" and "[4e]:"->"left": No such file or directory
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] can't remove hook mpd17126-0 from node "[1b]:": No such file or directory
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] Link: DOWN event
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] LCP: Down event
Nov 21 16:45:32 pfsense ppp: [wan_link0] Link: reconnection attempt 5 in 4 seconds
This appears to primarily affect PPPoE connections running over a VLAN but there have been reports of it in general.
It brings down all PPPoE connections when this happens regardless of where the local change was made.
I can confirm. After making a change to one of the interfaces and hit apply, my pppoe connection over vlan 6 disconnects and doesnt reconnect automatically. When I goto Status->Interfaces and hit Connect sometimes it succeeds but most of the time it fails and I need to reboot the firewall to get pppoe connected again.
Just adding a new vlan also brings down all pppoe interfaces, with the same exact error.
- Assignee set to Luiz Souza
I can confirm this fixes the issue.
I also created a failure upstream bringing down one ppp interface. The rest remained up, as expected.
- Status changed from New to Feedback
This should be fixed in 2.4.4p2
- Target version changed from 48 to 2.5.0
Steve Wheeler wrote:
In some situations PPPoE fails to reconnect after an upstream outage or making a change locally. The system file logs:
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This appears to primarily affect PPPoE connections running over a VLAN but there have been reports of it in general.
It brings down all PPPoE connections when this happens regardless of where the local change was made.
It's reproducing on 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3.
I did try clear 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 and also 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3+ patch above. Nothing helped.
gek Johnson wrote:
It's reproducing on 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3.
I'm also seeing the issue again in 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3.
Generally I need to reboot the pfSense box, but sometimes restarting the PPOE WAN interface will work.
It it helps, i'm running pfSense virtualized and on a Proxmox host. I'm using VLANS in my network, but not in pfSense. All my VLAN configuration is done in Proxmox and on my managed switch.
- Status changed from Feedback to Closed
I still can't reproduce a problem here. I have PPPoE setup with a VLAN parent and if I take down the server and bring it back up, the client reconnects immediately.
Either the problem has been solved, or there is some other issue specific to your environment or configuration that has not yet been identified. In anyone still has a problem on 2.5.0 snapshots or later, start a forum thread and include as much information as possible about your setup, interfaces, PPP logs, etc.
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