Re: PPP Dialer dials twice and very slow to connect

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

* Chris Weicht (weicht@itgs-presearch.com) wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 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

Yep. Read "Gotchas" on upudates.redhat.com. The problem was also in
6.1. Get an update from there, there is a new pppd package which will
make your problems go away :)

Tom.
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