From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020408 Description of problem: PPPOE_TIMEOUT value is set to 20 seconds by default. the LCP_INTERVAL is also set to 20 seconds pppoe man page states that the timeout should be about 4 times the lcp-echo-interval Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. use the network configuration program to set up an xDSL connection 2. activate the connection 3. tail -f /var/log/messages 4. Allow the connection to sit idle and the connection will soon be lost and restarted. If there is activity, the link will naturally not go down. Actual Results: The link will periodically go down and then back up again Expected Results: The link shouldn't go down. Additional info: I manually set PPPOE_TIMEOUT in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 to 80. This seemed to fix the problem.
it's fixed in 3.4-3. You will find it in the next rawhide release