Re: ppp redial problem
Are you using cua for your modem?
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.
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Lawrence Chim ychim@numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au
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