On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Brian Gibbons wrote:

> Example. If you unplug the DSL line from a SpeedTouch Pro and then plug it
> back in 15 seconds later, everything may continue as if nothing happened.
> There is no logging that DSL failed, PPP stays up and TCP connections will
> often "recover" (it ends up being a 30....45 second outage).
>
> This new feature turned up about the time Telecom claimed they have fixed
> the problem with DSL line failures, prior to that PPP would have
> disconnected, the ISP would see a Radius event and the users TCP sessions
> would probably die (loss of NAT state).

Not sure about this one. My 827 has recorded a number of DSL outages
lately:

messages.1.gz:Feb 24 14:45:17 router 50: Feb 24 14:45:18.553 NZDT:
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface ATM0, changed state to down

messages.1.gz:Feb 24 14:45:19 router 53: Feb 24 14:45:19.553 NZDT:
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface ATM0, changed state to down

messages.1.gz:Feb 24 14:45:39 router 58: Feb 24 14:45:40.049 NZDT:
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface ATM0, changed state to up

messages.1.gz:Feb 27 06:18:07 router 64: Feb 27 06:18:09.025 NZDT:
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface ATM0, changed state to down

messages.1.gz:Feb 27 06:18:28 router 69: Feb 27 06:18:29.545 NZDT:
%LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface ATM0, changed state to up

messages.1.gz:Feb 27 06:18:28 router 70: Feb 27 06:18:30.545 NZDT:
%LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN: Line protocol on Interface ATM0, changed state to up

And so forth.

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