From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: PPPOE_TIMEOUT should be at least 4 times greater than LCP_INTERVAL. /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 has PPPOE_TIMEOUT=20 and LCP_INTERVAL=80. These values cause the interface to go down every 20 seconds of inactivity. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run adsl-setup to configure pppoe 2.Bring the interface up: ifup ppp0 3.Watch the interface. Actual Results: The interface goes down every 20 seconds of inactivity. The is verified by viewing the /var/log/messages. Expected Results: The interface should stay up. Additional info:
it's fixed in 3.5-5, which is available in the rawhide.