Re: PPP Dialer dials twice and very slow to connect

[Chris Weicht <weicht itgs-presearch com>]

Tom Gilbert wrote:

> * 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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Me and another guy are running 6.1 and have been experiencing the same
problem.  I wrote my own ppp scripts and it does not do it when I run those,
only when I use the ppp dialer.

weicht