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Re: All clear! Pppd from hell is slain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Collier)
Sun Nov 17 12:50:39 1996
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 11:48:34 -0600
From: Nick Collier <ntcollie@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: lance@iac.co.jp
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
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Hey,
I had the same problem. You can set ppp up with the network configurator
in control panel (just as you did), but there is an option to start the
pppd daemon at bootup. Just make sure this is not enabled. I wish I
could be more specific but I am not on Linux just now. Having done this,
you should have some scripts written for you in
/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts.
After some experimentation, I discovered (and I hope this is the correct
way to do this) that ppp is started with ifup ifcfg-ppp0, and shut down
with ifdown ifcfg-ppp0. I then made some aliases for these and put then
in bashrc. (I'm the only user so there is no problem with others having
access to pppd). This works for me, but may not be the canonical way of
starting pppd using netcfg.
Oh yeah, the chat script (chat-ppp0 - created by netcfg) would not work
until I set the modem speed to 57600 for my 14.4 modem. You can get chat
and pppd to display debug info by adding -v to the chat command and
debug to the pppd command in the ifup-ppp file. The info can be seen by
doing tail -f /var/log/messages on another console or nxterm window.
Hope this helps,
Nick
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