I found 2 issues with the daily reconnect function of the PPPOE Interface which may be a bug:
1) if you change the Value off "Daily Reconnect" from Never to a time like 03:00 and save this option, you cannot switch it back to Never
2) if the daily reconnect is enabled, the pppoe link is brought down at the excected time, but the interface doesn't come up again. Dashboard shows it down until you push reconnect
Here my ppoe.log from today:
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppoe[3876]: Received signal 1 on session 319.
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppoe[3876]: Sent PADT
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Modem hangup
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Connect time 1099.1 minutes.
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Sent 24872956 bytes, received 81208063 bytes.
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 30761)
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Connection terminated.
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Script /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth3 -m 1452 finished (pid 3876), status = 0x0
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
2006:10:27-03:00:03 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 30761
2006:10:27-03:00:04 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 30761), status = 0x0
2006:10:27-03:00:04 (none) pppd-pppoe[3870]: Exit.
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppoe-sh: Access-Concentrator: xxxxxxxx Got a cookie: 55 59 ed ef 96 38 93 b1 8f fe 5a d5 51 80 88 d4 AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:90:1a:a0:57:2f --------------------------------------------------
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: pppd 2.4.3 started by root, uid 0
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: using channel 2
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Using interface ppp0
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Connect: ppp0 /dev/ttyp0
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppoe[30791]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
2006:10:27-03:00:10 (none) pppoe[30791]: PPP session is 1837 (0x72d)
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0xe0 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0xe0 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 magic=0x872f0e9e]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [PAP AuthReq id=0x1 user="removed" password=]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x0 magic=0x26d13973]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x1 ""]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: PAP authentication succeeded
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [LCP ProtRej id=0xe1 80 fd 01 01 00 15 12 06 00 00 00 01 1a 04 78 00 18 04 78 00 15 03 2f]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [IPCP ConfRej id=0x1 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0xd3 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [IPCP ConfAck id=0xd3 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x2 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x3 ]
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: local IP address xx.xx.xx.xx (!!ip removed by me!!)
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: remote IP address 217.0.116.129
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: primary DNS address 217.237.151.225
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: secondary DNS address 217.237.150.205
2006:10:27-03:00:11 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 30869)
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Terminating on signal 15
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Connect time 0.1 minutes.
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Sent 73 bytes, received 0 bytes.
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"]
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 30869), status = 0x0
2006:10:27-03:00:14 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 30926)
2006:10:27-03:00:17 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x3 "User request"]
2006:10:27-03:00:17 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 30926), status = 0x0
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Modem hangup
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Connection terminated.
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Waiting for 1 child processes...
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: script /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth3 -m 1452, pid 30791
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Child process /usr/sbin/pppoe -I eth3 -m 1452 (pid 30791) terminated with signal 15
2006:10:27-03:00:18 (none) pppd-pppoe[30790]: Exit.
I waited until 19 o'clock :-) but the interface coul only be restarted manually.