Re: pppd connection ok but no IP information from ISP

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

Thanks for answering.  I find the pppd options very confusing to 
understand.  Anyway I think I have  the solution.  I reset the pppd 
option "connect-delay" to 2 seconds, and this waits longer before 
asking the isp for ip allocatioon.  the default must have been too 
short previously.

Tom

On 03  2:24 pm, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > Debian users
> >
> > I am having intermitent luck connecting with my ISP.  I know that
> > my chat script is ok, but sometimes after the pppd starts the
> > serial connection my isp does not give my my dynamic IP address. 
> > sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't.
> >
> > Q>  is there a way to get the pppd to ask for the ip address
> > forcefully?  at the moment the connection just waits, and cannot
> > configure ifconfig.
>
> Are you sure that the IP is the problem and not a symptom since
> something earlier in the setup of the ppp connection has broken?
> One way to find out is to enable debugging, both in the ppp config
> files and in /etc/syslog.conf and then inspecting the log files
> again.
>
> > Tom
> >
> >
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