Re: PPP Dialer dials twice and very slow to connect

["jack wallen, jr" <jlwallen home com>]

you have to download the ppp and rp3 updates from the errata page. this
will fix a few problems (the ppp update will fix the double dialing
problem).

a chimp once told me that you said:

     :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
     :
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