ISP woes

[Neil Watson]

I have gathered further information:

I have performed some logging on the pppoe service.  When the connection
drops this is logged:
Oct 13 15:49:46 ettin pppd[2285]: No response to 3 echo-requests
Oct 13 15:49:46 ettin pppd[2285]: Serial link appears to be
disconnected.
Oct 13 15:49:46 ettin pppd[2285]: Connect time 5.7 minutes.

The timestamps are accurate.  During these drops the 'sync' light
remains lit on the modem.  Note the echo-requests message.  I increased
my pppoe software's lcp-echo-failure number to 6.  Now the time between
failures has increased but still averages less than 30 minutes.  Now
logged failures look as follows:

Oct 13 17:57:27 ettin pppd[20159]: LCP terminated by peer
Oct 13 17:57:27 ettin pppd[20159]: Connect time 5.9 minutes.

This suggests that there is some latency in the WAN connection.
Thoughts?

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