Hi,

I 'm in the process of changing all our m0n0wall 1.232 based hotspots from
cable internet connections (dhcp) to adsl lines using pppoe.
Now I experience many total freezes on the machines using pppoe. System is
not responding anymore, not on the wan and not on the lan side.
No more dhcp, etc. The only thing we can do is power cycle the machine to
bring it alive again.
Most systems are compaq SFF EN series  loaded with rtl8139d nics (I know...)

Before, with dhcp, these machines never locked up.We had uptimes of many
months without issues.
So now I wonder what could be causing this? Can it be on the ISP site? The
isp sends session-timeout every 48 hours, and it looks like the lockup
occurs at that moment (not 100% sure)
On the other hand, I got m0n0's (same hardware) running on adsl lines from
other ISP's and have no problem with them. But the other ISP doesn't
disconnect every 48 hours....
Anyway, m0n0 should be able to reconnect without problems after a
session-timeout disconnect, so i'm kind of stuck here.
I've been thinking of changing the realtek nics with 3com nics just to see
what happens.
Anyone else had similar issues b4 or an explanation what's happening here?
All suggestions are welcome.

Kind regards
Y.