Switched to the Kernel-Mode driver per the post at the top of this forum... things were working fine until I introduced (inadvertently) a line issue into the equation... I hooked up a satellite receiver on the same line with my DSL connection without the prerequisite DSL filter... which knocked my DSL Modem (in bridged mode) offline when the satellite receiver attempted to dial out... when I disconnected the receiver, the DSL modem synced back up, but the Astaro would not allow me to connect out, or even to the Webadmin itself... turns out it triggered a system crash... the system was rebooting. This is stable hardware (has been for 2 years now), this is the first time DSL disconnection has caused anything like this, so it must be the kernel driver... here's what I found in the Kernel log...
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: Badness in dst_release at include/net/dst.h:154
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] __kfree_skb+0x30/0xd6
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] ppp_destroy_interface+0xd5/0xdd [ppp_generic]
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] ppp_disconnect_channel+0x92/0x9a [ppp_generic]
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] ppp_unregister_channel+0x5b/0xb7 [ppp_generic]
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] pppox_unbind_sock+0x15/0x1d [pppox]
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] pppoe_connect+0x6a/0x210 [pppoe]
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] sys_connect+0x66/0x87
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] fcntl_setlk+0x1ec/0x20f
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] schedule+0x464/0x4d2
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] sys_socketcall+0x71/0x181
2008:12:27-23:23:50 myastaro kernel: [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
I also checked the PPPOE logs, nothing there out of the ordinary, the usual PADO timeouts during the line drop, but that's it....
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