Re: [Sheflug] PPP taking two calls to get going.

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > Sounds like you could have a problem in conf.modules, or in your ifup
> > script. Certainly, your /var/log/messages output looks dodgy; did you
mess
> > with it??
>
>  Erm, I confess, I`m such a master at this Linux thing I can even screw up
a
> cut/paste :-)

Fair dos ;)

>  From the time I get ppp to dial to full connection is 30 secs on the
mark,
> everytime.

Mmm. I'm not much cop at this analogue phone lark, not used one in a while
;))

>  I`m not sure about that one...kernel ppp is 2.3.7. I built ppp into my
kernel.
>  But where is 2.3.10 coming from?

Dunno.

> Aug 13 17:04:41 localhost kernel: PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> Aug 13 17:05:10 localhost pppd[13855]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
>
>  How do I sort this?

To be honest, I'm not convinced that's necessarily the problem - pppd is
different software to the kernel, and thus may have a different version
number. Is CONFIG_PPP in the kernel as static, or as a module? Also, have
you tried updating ppp? (Some versions are pretty flakey). I personally
would expect the two version numbers to be the same, but I guess that ain't
necessarily so.

>  I bring the connection up with the Gnome Applet most of the time which
calls
>  /usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 up and /usr/sbin/usernetctl ppp0 down, or
(rarely)
> ifup.

Um, does it like, toss a coin or what? Do these scripts work manually,
outside of the applet, or not?

>  I`m trying to get MasqDialer running as well, so my folks can dial out
thro my
> machine.

If you have Masq already running, you can run pppd in demand mode. That
means every time a packet destined for ppp0 is ready to send, the link is
brought up if it's not up already, and then goes down after three minutes of
non-usage (by default, I think, but you can change the amount of time). Of
course, that's so easy it can quite quickly become expensive, but it is
easy.

> Here`s my /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias eth0 ne2k-pci
> alias sound sb
> pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
> options opl3 io=0x388
> alias midi awe_wave
> post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330

Looks fine to me, although it's pretty small compared to mine. I'm surprised
not to see something like 'alias ppp0 ppp' in there, although I guess it's
distro-dependant.

Try running the scripts outside of the applet, and see if the problem
persists. If so, try updating ppp. If that still doesn't solve it, it's
probably a problem with the scripts that invoke ppp I imagine, unless anyone
else has any bright ideas?

Cheers,

Alex.


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