Session end...

[AntiThesis]

This may be a bit of a n00b question but what is it exactly that makes your session end every 24 hours?

 

[R4tt3xx]

The expiry of a server based DHCP lease, or Telksum could just simply plug your ADSL line out

 

[Valerion]

From my logs:

Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: LCP terminated by peer
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppoe[2458]: Session <session #> terminated -- received PADT from peer
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppoe[2458]: Sent PADT
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: Modem hangup
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: Connection terminated.
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: Connect time 1440.3 minutes.
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: Sent <data> bytes, received <data> bytes.
Aug 14 08:54:24 bugsy pppd[2457]: Exit.

Telkom's BRAS (Broadband Remote Access Server) sends you a PADT (PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate) packet - telling your PPPoE client software "Terminate the connection".

You can always look at http://http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3817.html - the RFC handling PPPoE data packets - but like all RFC's it's not light reading

 

[AntiThesis]

Ta

 

[th0rn]

From my logs:



Telkom's BRAS (Broadband Remote Access Server) sends you a PADT (PPPoE Active Discovery Terminate) packet - telling your PPPoE client software "Terminate the connection".

You can always look at http://http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3817.html - the RFC handling PPPoE data packets - but like all RFC's it's not light reading

Cant we firewall this packet?

 

[Darth Garth]

Cant we firewall this packet?

I think you can ignore it (a flag setting on pppoe Linux daemon) but then it is a moot point as you will not receive any more PPP traffic from BRA once it has sent you the PADT.

So you can't cheat .

 

[th0rn]

You may not attempt to circumvent user authentication or security of any host, network or account ("cracking"). This includes, but is not limited to, accessing making use of a server or account you are not expressly authorized to access, or probing the security of other networks. Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security is prohibited. Examples of these tools include, but are not limited to, password guessing programs, cracking tools or network probing tools.

I guess it would also fall in here, if we could.