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