ppp_on_boot disconnects?

["Matthew W. Roberts" <matt@lehi.tamu.edu>]

I've got /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot so that my machine connects immediately
on boot-up.  However, the connection has been going down after a few
minutes.  The last few lines of ppp.log show this:

Feb 16 20:41:27 roberts pppd[149]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x23 magic=0xc45a5c32]
Feb 16 20:41:43 roberts pppd[149]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x24 magic=0xbc2ead1]
Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Modem hangup
Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Connection terminated.
Feb 16 20:41:59 roberts pppd[149]: Exit.

I'm not sure what that means.  It's almost like the connection is
terminated after running scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d .  I searched Deja
and the web but could not find any documentation on how this is supposed
to work.

Thanks,

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Matthew W. Roberts
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