Re: PPP Dialer dials twice and very slow to connect

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Robert Krueger (rlkrueger@sprynet.com) wrote:
> Hello,
>   My RH PPP dialer in Gnome works, and establishes a connection
> eventually, but it usually fails on the first dial attempt, and has to
> redial before getting a solid connection.
> Switching to KDE and the KPPP dialer does not exhibit similar problems,
> it works as expected.    This may mean nothing, but it dials extremely
> fast.
>   Can anyone help me out?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert

Are you using Redhat 6.0 or less? There was a bug in pppd and some of
the scripts which led to this "double-dialing" behaviour, which I
believe was fixed in 6.1, if not more recently. Try a newer version of
pppd from update.redhat.com?

Tom.
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