Re: PPP: "Re: IPCP with mobile ISP sometimes gives bogus DNS address"

[Paulius Zaleckas <paulius zaleckas teltonika lt>]

Also you can take a look at my patch recently posted to
linux-ppp vger kernel org

Re: PPP difficulties regarding connection establishment and bogus DNS 
received
07/01/2008 02:50 PM

Markus Becker wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> several 3G cards (e.g. from Option) are reporting 10.11.12.13 as DNS 
> server, when they are not yet attached to a network, as you probably 
> know, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&w=2&r=1&s=bogus+DNS&q=b
>
> There seem to be 2 possible solutions to this:
> 1) Patch PPP to accept MS-WINS settings and use high values for 
> ipcp-max-configure, ipcp-max-failure, ipcp-max-terminate and/or 
> ipcp-restart. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445711 .
> (I am using the mentioned patch currently. Works fine for me.)
>
> 2) Checking with AT command CGATT, whether the device is attached to a 
> network and only try to dial in when this is true. 
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m=121305432406467&w=2)
>
> In order to get this fixed, I have several questions:
>
> a) The Debian bug report states, this has been sent upstream. Has 
> upstream accepted, denied or forgotten about it? Is there an upstream 
> bugzilla for
> linux-ppp?
>
> b) Marco, could this patch be part of the Debian package? Dan, how is 
> this done in Fedora?
>
> c) Dan, could solution 2 be integrated into NM?
>
> Markus
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