On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Marc writes: > > If I kill a running pppd/ stop a connection by running poff with or > > without the the -a option I am able to reconnect only for a few minutes. > > What dose plog say?
First I connect and just disconnect: Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down started (pid 1139) Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2 "User request"] Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x2] Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Connection terminated. Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Connect time 0.6 minutes. Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Sent 1950 bytes, received 48423 bytes. Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Waiting for 1 child processes... Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: script /etc/ppp/ip-down, pid 1139 Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-down finished (pid 1139), status = 0x0 Sep 25 23:08:21 rayman pppd[1113]: Exit. Later I try to exec pon again: Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: -- got it Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: send (ATDT0101901929^M) Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: expect (CONNECT) Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: ^M Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: ATZ^M^M Sep 25 23:32:05 rayman chat[1154]: OK^M Sep 25 23:32:50 rayman pppd[1153]: Connect script failed Sep 25 23:32:50 rayman chat[1154]: alarm Sep 25 23:32:50 rayman chat[1154]: Failed Sep 25 23:32:51 rayman pppd[1153]: Exit. > > Btw from time to time I get a bus error by running poff. > > What version of ppp? What kernel? What does plog say? Please post your > provider file. I am using potato. Therefore pppd is 2.3.11. Kernel is 2.2.15 without patches. I can't reproduce the bus error, but I will inspect the log next time when the error reappears. The provider and chat files were created by pppconfig.