Fun things to come home to

*sigh*….so much for the idea of doing work on Coursera thing (I just signed up for today) tonight:

yariman# tail -n 100 syslog | grep ppp
Sep 10 16:44:41 yariman pppd[24971]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Sep 10 16:44:41 yariman pppd[24972]: pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
Sep 10 16:45:16 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:45:16 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:46:21 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:46:21 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:47:26 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:47:26 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:48:31 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:48:31 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:49:36 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:49:36 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:50:41 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:50:41 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:51:46 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:51:46 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:52:51 yariman pppd[24972]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Sep 10 16:52:51 yariman pppd[24972]: Unable to complete PPPoE Discovery
Sep 10 16:53:00 yariman pppd[24972]: Terminating on signal 15
Sep 10 16:53:00 yariman pppd[24972]: Exit.

Line sync’d where it always has, good signal vs noise, etc. DSLAM or something in the middle just missing. Now to wait and hope my ticket gets to a useful support person. It *sucks* not having access to the local loop.

And Justin Case™ you couldn’t guess it, that post title is a lie.