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fernet17
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February 24, 2018
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PPPoE up time

  • February 24, 2018
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Hello,

how can I see the up-time of a PPPoE connection? I can't find it, neither in the GUI nor with the CLI. Fortios knows this, doesn't it?

 

Thanks!

Ueli

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    Toshi_Esumi
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    February 25, 2018

    I don't think FortiOS is counting timer for UP or DOWN on any interfaces. Only way to know interface's uptime, I think, is to look back the last UP event log and calculate the time from the event to now.

     

    FGTxxxxxxx# diag netlink interface list ppp1 if=ppp1 family=00 type=512 index=28 mtu=1492 link=18 master=0 ref=160 state=off start fw_flags=0 flags=up p2p run noarp multicast Qdisc=pfifo_fast stat: rxp=3574745 txp=3089370 rxb=2782323847 txb=376832898 rxe=0 txe=0 rxd=0 txd=0 mc=0 collision=0 re: rxl=0 rxo=0 rxc=0 rxf=0 rxfi=0 rxm=0 te: txa=0 txc=0 txfi=0 txh=0 txw=0 misc rxc=0 txc=0 input_type=0 state=3 arp_entry=0 refcnt=160 FGTxxxxxxx # fnsysctl ifconfig ppp1 ppp1    Link encap:Point-Point Protocol         inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.255.255         UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1         RX packets:3579552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0         TX packets:3094612 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0         collisions:0 txqueuelen:3         RX bytes:2784935464 (2.6 GB)  TX bytes:377314395 (359.8 MB)

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    SuperUser
    February 25, 2018

    Two thoughts:

    1- have you checked the SNMP MIB?

    2- if you attach a DynDNS hostname to the PPPoE port, you could check the date of the last change with the DynDNS provider (that's the way I do it as nearly all our PPPoE lines are forcibly reconnected once per day).

    fernet17
    fernet17Author
    New Member
    March 1, 2018

    Hello,

    thanks a lot for your creative input!

    I'd have expected that the Fortios knows the PPPoE connection time.

     

    Regards

    Ueli