RE: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0

[CHARDON,LUIS (HP-PuertoRico,ex1)]

I have the same problem on 8.0 and also traced it back to the ppp-watch
line. I tried to run it manually and it does not work either. I had the same
problem the first time I installed 7.2, but I solved it by removing the
WVDIAL... variable in the ifcfg-ppp0 file, and then it worked. It seems to
have some problems that it tries to use wvdial, but wvdial does not come
with the Mandrake distro., it comes with RedHat. I installed wvdial to see
if it solves this problem, and it does not work either.

I've also seen a weird behavior prior installing wvdial. Everytime you run
an ifup ppp0 a file named /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0 is created and the contents
have

connect "/usr/bin/wvdial --remotename ppp0 --chat prtc.net"

I don't know if ppp-watch reads this file and that is the problem.

Regards,

Luis

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Damour [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 5:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [expert] Problem with ifup ppp0 in LM 8.0


Hi,

I recently installed LM 8.0 (fresh install) after running LM 7.2 for some
time.
I used to have my pppd configured with ON DEMAND (DEMAND=yes in ifcfg-ppp0)
so 
that i could just connect to the net (USR 56K Message Modem) pinging my fai.

This would also allow me (together w/ ipchains) to connect on demand from my

other station (I have 2 stations connected).

Now it just hangs if I run 'ifup ppp0'. That is, the syslog shows that the
if 
is going up w/ the dummy addresses normally but the prompt never comes back.
I tried to ping and it works (the connection starts normally and _then_ the 
prompt comes back...

What could be the problem ? I traced the problem to this line in ifup-ppp :
 ppp-watch ppp0 ifcfg-ppp0
It could be some paramater in the ifcfg-ppp0 ? but everything works fine if
I 
run kppp or even if i just comment out the DEMAND line in ifcfg-ppp0.

Has anyone an idea or encountered the same type of problem ?

TIA.