Comment 5 for bug 34277

Some further notes. I tried removing ipv6 support to see if this was causing any problems but no change.

lspci reports the network card is:

0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)

I can always ping the lo and eth0 devices and ips, but not ppp when things stop.

I just recorded a tcpdump of a connection and subsequent timeout/disconnect, the logs for this were:

Mar 21 22:45:21 localhost kernel: [4310338.296000] eth0: Setting half-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 0021.
Mar 21 22:45:28 localhost kernel: [4310345.247000] eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
Mar 21 22:45:28 localhost kernel: [4310345.247000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
Mar 21 22:46:01 localhost pppd[11811]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded.
Mar 21 22:46:01 localhost pppd[11815]: pppd 2.4.4b1 started by root, uid 0
Mar 21 22:46:36 localhost pppd[11815]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Mar 21 22:47:12 localhost pppd[11815]: PPP session is 2
Mar 21 22:47:12 localhost pppd[11815]: Using interface ppp0
Mar 21 22:47:12 localhost pppd[11815]: Connect: ppp0 <--> eth0
Mar 21 22:49:04 localhost pppd[11815]: LCP terminated by peer
Mar 21 22:49:07 localhost pppd[11815]: Connection terminated.
Mar 21 22:49:07 localhost pppd[11815]: Modem hangup
Mar 21 22:49:20 localhost kernel: [4310577.368000] device eth0 left promiscuous mode

and the tcpdump is attach'd as dump.ppp.eth0