Thanks for answering. I find the pppd options very confusing to understand. Anyway I think I have the solution. I reset the pppd option "connect-delay" to 2 seconds, and this waits longer before asking the isp for ip allocatioon. the default must have been too short previously.
Tom On 03 2:24 pm, Shaul Karl wrote: > > Debian users > > > > I am having intermitent luck connecting with my ISP. I know that > > my chat script is ok, but sometimes after the pppd starts the > > serial connection my isp does not give my my dynamic IP address. > > sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. > > > > Q> is there a way to get the pppd to ask for the ip address > > forcefully? at the moment the connection just waits, and cannot > > configure ifconfig. > > Are you sure that the IP is the problem and not a symptom since > something earlier in the setup of the ppp connection has broken? > One way to find out is to enable debugging, both in the ppp config > files and in /etc/syslog.conf and then inspecting the log files > again. > > > Tom > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null