Mike Adolf wrote:
On Thursday 03 February 2005 12:25 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:

Mike Adolf wrote:

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 01:54 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote:

Gentle folks,

I use KPPP to dial-in my ISP. Whenever I dial-up
for the first time (after the system boot up), the
link gets broken and the next time the link is
fine. Of course, using the proper username and
password both tries. Is there any reason why it
doesn't accomplish the negotiation with ISP's
systems at first? I don't change any params and
just dial-up the second time and then the
connection is ok.

Misko

I had the same problem with wvdial, it would not work on the first attempt after a boot. KPPP would never work. I think this also happened with SUse 9.1 personnel. I switched dial-up providers and the problem went away!

Mike

It sounds like a timing problem. Possible it is taking your system too long to get everyting loaded the first time, and the reply to the other system's loging request times out. Or it could be a problem I had, where the same dialup modem bank was shared by several ISPs, and the connection was timing out while trying to validate my login with the ISP's RAS server. To fix that, I had to increase the timout delay from the default 60 to 120 in the ppp settings. (It shouldn't take 2 minutes to make the connection.) I have not done it in kppp, but I know there is a timeout option in ifup-ppp and wvdial when using those connection methods, so I would guess kppp has one too.

Mikkel


I don't have the problem any more. I now enjoy a high speed microwave link! When I had the problem, I also raised my timout--didn't help. Also, I believe any good ISP should be able to connect within 30 sec.

Mike

The opteritive word here is "should". Where you run into problems is when your ISP is a reseller, and you are using a dialup access that is shared by many resellers. When you connet, they first have to seperate your ISP off the login name. Then they have to look up the RAS server for that ISP, do a DNS lookup, connect to it, and validate your username and password. The DNS lookup and connection sometimes take a while, especialy the handshaking for an encripted connection. Once the IP address in in the local DNS cache, it goes much faster. But when you happen to be the ISP's only user on that node, and you don't connect often, then it can be a problem. It was national dialup from a "local" company, so you had no problems when you were in the "local" area, but it could be a problem when traveling. But it was cheap access, and there were dialup numbers all over the place. Great for a backup connection, or when you are traveling.

Mikkel
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