My experience with adsl was that the provider timed out the IP lease and I had to get a new one frequently (at least every 8 hours).
The simplest way I found for that was to use "service network restart" and it just reconnected and worked. In fact I got so that I just ran that command from cron so I did not have to worry about it after that.
That's very strange. I have adsl, and despite IP lease expiration every 8 or so hours, I've never had to restart my network. In fact, if dsl dies off for a short period and resyncs, rp-pppoe picks it back up on its own typically.
I have sbcglobal for a provider, what about yourselves?
Alex White
