Hi
 
I am using Redhat 7.2 with the default 2.4.7-10 kernel. I am also using the speedtouch / USB hotplug combination.
 
When the link fails, it can never reconnect. The only way I can get back online is to reboot the machine.
 
Looking through the ppplog, I see these messages:
 
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2954]: Plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so loaded.
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2954]: PPPoATM plugin_init
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2954]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2954]: PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2955]: pppd 2.4.0b1 started by root, uid 0
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2955]: using channel 2
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2955]: Using interface ppp0
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2955]: Connect: ppp0 <--> 0.38
Nov 27 14:44:03 adsl pppd[2955]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <magic 0xd935214e>]
Nov 27 14:44:30 adsl last message repeated 9 times
Nov 27 14:44:33 adsl pppd[2955]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
Nov 27 14:46:38 adsl pppd[2955]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x70 <auth chap MD5> <magi
c 0x45b08b24>]
Nov 27 14:46:38 adsl pppd[2955]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <magic 0x6b02160b>]
Nov 27 14:46:38 adsl pppd[2955]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x70 <auth chap MD5> <magi
c 0x45b08b24>]
Nov 27 14:46:40 adsl pppd[2955]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x71 <auth chap MD5> <magi
c 0x45b08b24>]
 
and these go on forever!!
 
Does the "USING CHANNEL 2" make any difference?
 
If I now reboot the machine, the ADSL will start up fine.
 
Here is my /etc/ppp/options file:
 
lock
usepeerdns
debug
defaultroute
noipdefault
noauth
passive
asyncmap 0
kdebug 1
holdoff 1
persist
maxfail 0
name [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
plugin /usr/lib/pppd/plugins/pppoatm.so
0.38
 
Please can anyone help - it's really frustrating when it doesn't work!
 
Thanks in advance
 
Jay White
IT Manager
BF Group
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