[solved] PPP sessions restarting, and Phone audio cutting out, what to do?

Hello,

I have a BT Home Hub 5A running OpenWrt 18.06.1 r7258-5eb055306f with 4.9.120 kernel.
Sometime it restarts by itself the network and I don't understand the reason when I check logs (I copy/paste log of one of this restart moment below). Does anyone would have any idea on that matter and could help me?

The DSL Status is as following :
DSL Status

Line State: UP [0x0]
Line Mode: G.992.5 (ADSL2+)
Line Uptime: 7d 19h 12m 48s
Annex: A
Profile: -
Data Rate: 10.272 Mb/s / 1.018 Mb/s
Max. Attainable Data Rate (ATTNDR): 11.540 Mb/s / 993 Kb/s
Latency: 7.50 ms / 4.0 ms
Line Attenuation (LATN): 41.0 dB / 21.5 dB
Signal Attenuation (SATN): 38.6 dB / 21.1 dB
Noise Margin (SNR): 6.9 dB / 4.5 dB
Aggregate Transmit Power(ACTATP): 17.4 dB / 12.1 dB
Forward Error Correction Seconds (FECS): 17561774 / 8683476
Errored seconds (ES): 3600 / 1054
Severely Errored Seconds (SES): 938 / 17
Loss of Signal Seconds (LOSS): 0 / 0
Unavailable Seconds (UAS): 55 / 55
Header Error Code Errors (HEC): 839852 / 9643
Non Pre-emtive CRC errors (CRC_P): 0 / 0
Pre-emtive CRC errors (CRCP_P): 0 / 0
ATU-C System Vendor ID: Broadcom 161.242
Power Management Mode: L0 - Synchronized

The DSL config is :

Annex : Annex A + L + M (all)
Tone : auto
Encapsulation mode : auto
DSL line mode : auto
Downstream SNR offset : 0.0 dB

and WAN config is :

Protocol : PPPoATM
PPPoA Encapsulation : VC-Mux
ATM device number : 0
ATM Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) : 35
ATM Virtual Path Identifier (VPI) : 8
PAP/CHAP username : [username]
PAP/CHAP password : [password]

The log is (I modified all IP's and addresses) :

Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: LCP terminated by peer
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: Connect time 10080.1 minutes.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: Sent 1174239031 bytes, received 2089951092 bytes.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.err odhcp6c[5793]: Failed to send DHCPV6 message to xxxx::x:x (Permission denied)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.err odhcp6c[5778]: Failed to send RS (Permission denied)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'pppoa-wan' link is down
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Network alias 'pppoa-wan' link is down
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' has link connectivity loss
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' has link connectivity loss
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' has lost the connection
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' is disabled
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' is disabled
Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.warn dnsmasq[2095]: no servers found in /tmp/resolv.conf.auto, will retry
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.notice netifd: wan_6 (5793): Command failed: Permission denied
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /tmp/hosts/odhcpd - 5 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /tmp/hosts/dhcp.cfg01411c - 14 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2095]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.err odhcp6c[5793]: Failed to send DHCPV6 message to xxxx::x:x (Permission denied)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:30 2019 daemon.err odhcp6c[5778]: Failed to send DHCPV6 message to xxxx::x:x (Permission denied)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.notice pppd[5634]: Connection terminated.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: Connect time 10080.1 minutes.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: Sent 1174239031 bytes, received 2089951092 bytes.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.notice pppd[5634]: Modem hangup
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: Exit.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now down
Wed Jan 30 15:26:32 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is setting up now
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.err insmod: module is already loaded - slhc
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.err insmod: module is already loaded - ppp_generic
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.err insmod: module is already loaded - pppox
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.err insmod: module is already loaded - pppoatm
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.info pppd[18158]: Plugin pppoatm.so loaded.
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.info pppd[18158]: PPPoATM plugin_init
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.info pppd[18158]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:0.8.35
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: pppd 2.4.7 started by root, uid 0
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 kern.info kernel: [605040.557487] pppoa-wan: renamed from ppp0
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.info pppd[18158]: Using interface pppoa-wan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: Connect: pppoa-wan <--> 0.8.35
Wed Jan 30 15:26:33 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: PAP authentication succeeded
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: local  LL address dddd::dddd:dddd:dddd:dddd
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: remote LL address eeee::eeee:eeee:eeee:eeee
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: local  IP address yy.yy.yy.yy
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: remote IP address zz.zz.zz.zz
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: primary   DNS address bb.bb.bb.bb
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice pppd[18158]: secondary DNS address bb.bb.bb.cc
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Network device 'pppoa-wan' link is up
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' is enabled
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' is enabled
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Network alias 'pppoa-wan' link is up
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' has link connectivity
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' is setting up now
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' has link connectivity
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' is setting up now
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan' is now up
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain test
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain local
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:34 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:35 2019 user.notice SQM: Stopping SQM on pppoa-wan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan_6' is now up
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain test
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain local
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /etc/hosts - 4 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /tmp/hosts/odhcpd - 10 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: read /tmp/hosts/dhcp.cfg01411c - 14 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq-dhcp[2095]: read /etc/ethers - 0 addresses
Wed Jan 30 15:26:36 2019 user.notice SQM: Starting SQM script: piece_of_cake.qos on pppoa-wan, in: 7500 Kbps, out: 750 Kbps
Wed Jan 30 15:26:38 2019 user.notice SQM: piece_of_cake.qos was started on pppoa-wan successfully
Wed Jan 30 15:26:38 2019 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of wan (pppoa-wan)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.notice netifd: Interface 'wan6' is now up
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: reading /tmp/resolv.conf.auto
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain test
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain onion
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain localhost
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain local
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain invalid
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain bind
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using local addresses only for domain lan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bb.bb.bb.cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::bb#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 daemon.info dnsmasq[2095]: using nameserver bbbb:bbb:bbb::cc#53
Wed Jan 30 15:26:39 2019 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifupdate of wan (pppoa-wan)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:40 2019 user.notice SQM: Stopping SQM on pppoa-wan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:41 2019 user.notice SQM: Starting SQM script: piece_of_cake.qos on pppoa-wan, in: 7500 Kbps, out: 750 Kbps
Wed Jan 30 15:26:43 2019 user.notice SQM: piece_of_cake.qos was started on pppoa-wan successfully
Wed Jan 30 15:26:43 2019 user.notice firewall: Reloading firewall due to ifup of wan_6 (pppoa-wan)
Wed Jan 30 15:26:44 2019 user.notice SQM: Stopping SQM on pppoa-wan
Wed Jan 30 15:26:45 2019 user.notice SQM: Starting SQM script: piece_of_cake.qos on pppoa-wan, in: 7500 Kbps, out: 750 Kbps
Wed Jan 30 15:26:46 2019 user.notice SQM: piece_of_cake.qos was started on pppoa-wan successfully

LCP terminated by peer

I am not sure, but does not it mean that the connection is terminated by your ISP?

I don't know but when I asked them about that same issue they said they had no answer. I can ask again.
What means LCP?

Other information I can give :
DSL Line Uptime : 7d 19h 12m 48s
Network Connected: 1d 0h 23m 58s

So the DSL is up since I last restarted my router/modem (one week ago) but as you can see, the network restarted about 25h ago.

It looks like a routine restart of the ppp session by your ISP. They usually take place in order to change your dynamic public IP address.
In my case it happens every 3 days, so it is not so terrible. How often does it happen to you?

Not so often, it's not really bothering me. I'm more curious to understand and this answer would satisfy my curiosity if I had a dynamic public IP address but it's not the case. My public IP is fix. I don't change IP...
My ISP told me it could come either from my modem or from rusted connection or bad cables.
So, from what I can read in your answer and their answer, I guess I have to blame some cable or plug...
What do you think?

It doesn't look like a hardware issue.
Changing dynamic IP address was an example. In another site that I manage there is static IP address, however the session is restarted periodically. My guess is that it is a common practice to eliminate stuck connections. If you notice a pattern in the restart frequency it is definitely a restart initiated by the ISP.

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I would guess that bad cables would result in sync losses, but your DL-link stays up and only the ppp-. goes away. Can you by any chance post a screen shot of your DSL error counters just from before and after such a disconnect? An increase in errors (ES, SES, CRC_P, CRCP_P) around the ppp disconncet might indicate that the relevant LCP (link control protocol AFAIR) packets might have been dropped and the upstream end terminated you thinking it lost its connection to you. I do not believe this to be likely though.
Could you please post the output of
cat /etc/config/sqm
and
tc -s qdisc
please just to rule out issues with sqm (that, given that sqm is instantiated on pppoa-wan should also not affect the LCP packets as these are "injected"/'extracted" transparently to sqm, so sqm will not be able to drop those packets...)

Understood.
Thank you @trendy very much for this enlightenment!

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I'm going to provide you that but just to be clear, I installed sqm yesterday only but I noticed that restarting network problem month ago.

root@OpenWrt:~# cat /etc/config/sqm

config queue 'eth1'
	option qdisc_advanced '0'
	option enabled '1'
	option debug_logging '0'
	option verbosity '5'
	option linklayer 'atm'
	option overhead '44'
	option qdisc 'cake'
	option script 'piece_of_cake.qos'
	option interface 'pppoa-wan'
	option download '7500'
	option upload '750'

root@OpenWrt:~# ^C
root@OpenWrt:~# tc -s qdisc
qdisc noqueue 0: dev lo root refcnt 2 
 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc fq_codel 0: dev eth0 root refcnt 2 limit 10240p flows 1024 quantum 1514 target 5.0ms interval 100.0ms memory_limit 4Mb ecn 
 Sent 7910649310 bytes 27948192 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 17) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 17
  maxpacket 1514 drop_overlimit 0 new_flow_count 1246 ecn_mark 0
  new_flows_len 0 old_flows_len 0
qdisc noqueue 0: dev br-lan root refcnt 2 
 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc noqueue 0: dev eth0.1 root refcnt 2 
 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc noqueue 0: dev wlan0 root refcnt 2 
 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc noqueue 0: dev wlan1 root refcnt 2 
 Sent 0 bytes 0 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc cake 8039: dev pppoa-wan root refcnt 2 bandwidth 750Kbit besteffort triple-isolate nonat nowash no-ack-filter split-gso rtt 100.0ms atm overhead 44 
 Sent 999841064 bytes 7540910 pkt (dropped 1560257, overlimits 10434178 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
 memory used: 4196736b of 4Mb
 capacity estimate: 750Kbit
 min/max network layer size:           28 /    1460
 min/max overhead-adjusted size:      106 /    1696
 average network hdr offset:            0

                  Tin 0
  thresh        750Kbit
  target         23.4ms
  interval      118.4ms
  pk_delay       13.9ms
  av_delay        2.1ms
  sp_delay         65us
  backlog            0b
  pkts          9101185
  bytes      1375596871
  way_inds      1836850
  way_miss      1292540
  way_cols       102935
  drops         1560257
  marks            1241
  ack_drop            0
  sp_flows            9
  bk_flows            6
  un_flows            0
  max_len         14600
  quantum           300

qdisc ingress ffff: dev pppoa-wan parent ffff:fff1 ---------------- 
 Sent 9311466807 bytes 10175598 pkt (dropped 0, overlimits 0 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
qdisc cake 803a: dev ifb4pppoa-wan root refcnt 2 bandwidth 7500Kbit besteffort triple-isolate nonat wash no-ack-filter split-gso rtt 100.0ms atm overhead 44 
 Sent 9114317020 bytes 10032016 pkt (dropped 143582, overlimits 12543251 requeues 0) 
 backlog 0b 0p requeues 0
 memory used: 556864b of 4Mb
 capacity estimate: 7500Kbit
 min/max network layer size:           28 /    1480
 min/max overhead-adjusted size:      106 /    1696
 average network hdr offset:            0

                  Tin 0
  thresh       7500Kbit
  target          5.0ms
  interval      100.0ms
  pk_delay        1.2ms
  av_delay        480us
  sp_delay         21us
  backlog            0b
  pkts         10175598
  bytes      9311466807
  way_inds       370101
  way_miss      1419297
  way_cols           42
  drops          143582
  marks               0
  ack_drop            0
  sp_flows            4
  bk_flows            2
  un_flows            0
  max_len          1480
  quantum           300

root@OpenWrt:~#

I don't know where to find DSL error counters. So I don't know how to make screenshot of it just before and after the disconnection....

With PPPoA you will most likely only have an actual overhead of either 10 or 14 (see https://github.com/moeller0/ATM_overhead_detector for how to empirically measure that on your own link)

But other than that this looks good, and configuring more overhead than necessary will leave even more room for LCP packets, so this is orthogonal to your issue.

Oh, they are included in the "DSL Status" as shown in your forst post. The point really is to collect a pair tightly around one of these "Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 daemon.info pppd[5634]: LCP terminated by peer" events.

That said, I agree @trendy's assessment in [solved] PPP sessions restarting, and Phone audio cutting out, what to do? - #6 by trendy

I found 44 in this page https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm
For DSL of any other type - Choose ATM , and set per packet overhead to 44

I will follow your link to get a better overhead.

Thank you

But I can't go back in time and make a screenshot of DSL Status the Wed Jan 30 15:26:29 2019 ? Can I?
Or should I predict the next "restart". I don't know how... :slight_smile:

Thank you very much @moeller0

Yes, baring a time-machine you will need to wait for the next event to happen :wink:

I followed your advised @moeller0 , and I reduced overhead to 14 first and then 13,12,11 and finally 10 and tests (from dslreports.com) are indeed good with it too.

If you may, I have a question and hope you have the answer.
Below you can see several graph of my tests and if all downloads are quiet smooth, uploads are all going up and down like teeth of a saw... You actually need to click on the link to see graphs on the result page.
Is it normal upload test does that? If not, any idea where it comes from, why upload is unstable? and how to solve the issue?

If I ask the question is because we never experience any issue dowloading things, but when we want to call with our SIIP phone from OVH, sometime people can't hear us and OVH is blaming our upload capacity. But at the same time, I never experience the same thing with matrix/riot or whatsapp calls... only with the SIP phone (Cisco SPA112).
So I'm thinking maybe this up and down graph and our SIP phone problem are linked. I'm trying to understand and I'm looking for ideas or better explanations.

I'm not sure I'm clear. All this is new to me.

I believe that this is most likely caused by you using only two streams for the upload measurement, but 8 for the upstream. The ripples most likely are caused by TCP's bandwidth probing mechanism.

So I believe these to not be indicative of anything.

I just tested this again, I see small ripples both with 2 and with 16 upload streams, but I have no VoIP issues (but also more bandwidth, so not sure what this proves).

Mmmh, you might want to look at the instantaneous traffic rates while this happens to figure out whether this theory has merits. You could look in the GUI under Status -> Realtime Graphs -> Traffic -> pppoa-wan or if this is too coarse, you could install iftop (opkg update ; opkg install iftop) and then run iftop -i pppoa-wan on the router's command line interface.

Thank you @moeller0 and doing so, I could make a link between the silence moment (for our correspondent, we always can hear them) and our upload.
However, silent moment don't happen during a drop of upload capacity (as we can't see any on the graph) but always match to these pic of upload we can observe on these attached graph.

Screenshot_Firefox_Lite_20190205-100509 Screenshot_Firefox_Lite_20190205-100916 Screenshot_Firefox_Lite_20190205-101035 Screenshot_Firefox_Lite_20190205-101436

I guess these pic could correspond to some activities from our yunohost server (nothing else was connected to the router at that time but the phone and the yunohost server that contain an email server, nextcloud and a matrix server for 7 people only, not supposed to work that much).

What I don't understand is why we never experience any discomfort using Internet (even using videocall on matrix/riot, whatsapp or telegram, neither for our emails, or handling our cloud) but when we use this SIP phone...
Once that said, I need to find a solution.

Would it be possible to give a priority to its connection? Is it possible for me to tell OpenWrt to keep wide open the upload to the Cisco SPA112 when it is on use? or at least to dedicate 30% capacity of it all the time maybe (we'll loose on other aspect I suppose if we do so but it is important my parents can keep using a landline). Or, would it be possible to limit the upload of one machine (the yunohost server) by saying "this local IP (or MAC address) can use at maximum 0.400Mbps of pppoa-wan upload"?
It is actually the reason I installed SQM, I thought that was the point of QoS but I don't understand how to express that in the settings...

Thank you in advance for your help,
OVH is not helping at all, rejecting the problem on me. And my parents, they put pressure for us to go back to a closed SIP with closed hardware and no fixed IP... just to get the landline working whereas we gain so much quitting these SIP (but they don't see it).
Trying to do the right thing, to put back freedom at the centre of internet and fight against the easy plug&play of big, closed companies is somehow, sometime, hard and a lonely task...

Again thank you for reading me and helping me. It is thanks to help of all communities of FOSS that people like me keep trying and reach so far... and that's how freedom will win! :wink: :grin:

Edit : I've tried reading that thread but without understanding much of it... https://github.com/tohojo/sqm-scripts/issues/23