Hi,
sometimes after I do a ifdown ppp0 this happens to me, and I see a
ppp-watch process running that is respawning the connection. You can check
for that and try to kill it.
Luis
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> Hi Pj,
>
> I tried your idea, and now I am stuck...After doing ifup ppp0 I got
> connected, did my things and disconnected with ifdown ppp0. But now
> my linux wants to reconnect after 60s, in spite of doing explicit
> ifdown ppp0...
>
> I tried everything, I modified the config file
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0,
>
> changed PERSIST to "no", but it did not help...I even hung up from
> linuxconf, exited from root after ifdown ppp0, nothing helps.
>
> What is going on!?
>
> Here is my config file:
>
> DEVICE="ppp0"
> ONBOOT="no"
> USERCTL="no"
> MODEMPORT="/dev/modem"
> LINESPEED="115200"
> PERSIST="no"
> DEFABORT="yes"
> DEBUG="yes"
> INITSTRING="ATZ"
> DEFROUTE="yes"
> HARDFLOWCTL="yes"
> ESCAPECHARS="no"
> PPPOPTIONS=""
> PAPNAME="*********"
> REMIP=""
> NETMASK=""
> IPADDR=""
> MRU=""
> MTU=""
> DISCONNECTTIMEOUT="5"
> RETRYTIMEOUT="60"
> BOOTPROTO="none"
> PEERDNS="yes"
> DNS1=*********
> DNS2=*********
>
> Viktor
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:53:53PM -0600, Pj wrote:
> > Viktor,
> >
> > It might be your carrier, phone lines, ISP, or a squirrel in a tree.
> > Anything is possible. What I do is log as /root and try ifup ppp0 . Once
> > connected its easy enough to go back to KDE. Personally "if" has always
> > worked for me better than kPPP every time. Don't forget to /root and then
> > ifdown ppp0 to close your connection.
> >
> > Pj
> >
> >
>
>
