From: Adam Bogacki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 8 February 2002 11:40 PM To: 'Jeff Allison' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [SLUG] primus dialup problem
Slightly off topic - my Debian system recently had a problem with Primus in that my local call bill with them blew out by a factor of 10. At one stage the records showed that I was reconnecting every 1.5 minutes, sometimes 1-200 times a day. I talked to their techies - who knew nothing about Linux - and came to the conclusion that I was being cut off by their software during peak periods (when preferred users with 'prime accounts' get automatic priority) but that my autodial was immediately reconnecting., in other words a feedback cycle. They admitted to a "misconfiguration", were nervous that I would quit them, and gave me three months Internet use free which monetary value I deducted from the bill. It strikes me that ISP's which also provide a local call service have an opportunity to churn the market by generating more local calls but my questions on this matter have generated answers from "we don't make any money out of it" from Primus, to "they all do it" from a knowledgeable insider. If the latter is true, it suggests that a lot of ISP's are treading on thin financial ice ... In the meantime, can anyone suggest how I turn the Debian autodial on/off ? I would like to be able to enable or disable it, depending on the need at the time._ Adam Bogacki P.O. Box 38, Earlwood, NSW 2206, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [current ISP] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Allison Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] primus dialup problem Hi All my ISP has just transferred me to Hotkey which appears to be a primus dialup. Everything was working fine until the transfer now I cannot connect using a ifup ppp0 command only way I can get a connections is by directly using wvdial. as the connection starts I get this in the syslog Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston WvDial: ~[7f]}#@!}!}!} '}"}&} } } } }#}$@#}%} &xF(M}'}"} Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston WvDial: PPP negotiation detected. Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston pppd[5023]: Serial connection established. Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston pppd[5023]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston pppd[5023]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston su(pam_unix)[5107]: session opened for user root by (ui) Feb 6 10:14:57 dalston su(pam_unix)[5107]: session closed for user root Feb 6 10:15:09 dalston pppd[5023]: Serial line is looped back. Feb 6 10:15:09 dalston pppd[5023]: Connection terminated. I've had a quick google and I think I need to add the silent option to pppd but even after putting it in /etc/ppp/options, /etc/ppp/option.ttyS0 and the options section of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp and doing and ps -ax | grep pppd I get [root@dalston /etc]# ps -ax | grep ppp 5659 ttyS0 S 0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd modem crtscts defaultroute usehostname 5782 pts/14 S 0:00 grep ppp Any ideas gratefully accecpted and do you know where I can find the syntax for these sysconfig files. TIA Jeff Allison oops RedHat 7.1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
