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Re: ppp redial problem



On Fri, 11 Apr 1997 01:32:36 -0500 (EST), Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:

>
>A weird thing is happening to my pppd. (version 2.2.0f-19)  I added the
>persist option to /etc/ppp/options so that if the connection went down, it
>would immediately be brought back up again.  However what happens is it
>attempts to dial and then stops short.  It does this about three times and
>then stops.  I thought maybe the modem wasn't re-initializing properly
>(It's a rather old AT&T DataExpress 28.8) so I went to my chat script and
>added ath,at&f before the dial string.  ath should hang up my modem and
>at&f should reinitialize it.  I have checked these commands with the modem
>manual.  This didn't work either.  In fact I was unable to use pppd until
>I rebooted.  (yes even stopping it and starting it again didn't work.)
>The odd thing was I could redial with minicom.  So there is something
>wrong with pppd or my setup of it.
>
>The immediate emergency is gone.  I have found a small program called
>pppupd which can watch the connection and bring it back up again if
>needed.  This seems to be able to redial without any problems.  Still I'd
>like to get to the bottom of the ppp problem if anyone has any ideas.
>
>-- Jaldhar
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