Bug 37098

Summary:	pppd gets spawned multiple times with persistent/demand connections
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Trever Adams <trever>
Component:	ppp	Assignee:	Thomas Woerner <twoerner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	ak
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Description Trever Adams 2001-04-22 22:15:10 UTC

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I have one box that acts as the gateway for my house network.  We only have
a dial up line.  I have been using pppd with 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernels for
some time with this setup.  I upgraded to 7.1 a day or so ago.   Now, the
demand and persistent connections make pppd or ppp-watch spawn multiple
pppd's.  For example:  Connection is terminated.  I should only have one
pppd running with an entry of ppp0 in ifconfig for it.  Now, with RedHat
7.1  I get two pppd's and ppp0,ppp1 in ifconfig.  This was an upgrade
install and not a clean install.  I believe though that all 7.1 things were
installed that had previous parts.   No dependency problems.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a pppd connection
2.  Make it demand in options and make it persistant
3.  Get it to connect
4.  Drop connection
5.  ps xa, ifconfig
	

Actual Results:  I get too many ppp interfaces and pppd's running.

Expected Results:  One pppd running.  One interface.

Comment 1 Trever Adams 2001-04-24 05:40:22 UTC

I have found additional things.  I still do not know if ppp-watch or pppd is at
fault.  The above directions do not cause the problem.  It seems pppd is
unkillable, however, ppp-watch seems to see the signal to die and spawns a new
pppd.  Hence the multiple pppd's.

I had reasons for having if-down.local in /etc/ppp kill the pppd (I cannot
remember this late at night what they were, it seems it had to do with some
other program working right).  It is a bug for pppd to ignore the QUIT (I
believe that is the default for kill) signal.  It is also a bug for pppd to see
that signal and assume pppd is dead and restart it without verifying that pppd
went away.

Two bugs: pppd doesn't respond to the signal mentioned above, and ppp-watch
restarts pppd when it shouldn't.

Comment 2 Alex Kanavin 2001-05-09 14:02:08 UTC

I suspect this is a duplicate of bug #39231. 
There's a patch there, please tell if it fixes your problem.

Comment 3 Bruce Garlock 2001-05-22 15:44:15 UTC

I had a similar issue with ppp-watch.  It did not redial when the connection was broken, like it did in RH 6.2.  Until a new release of initscripts is released, I 
simply copied the ppp-watch program from my system backup tape, and replaced the rh 7.1 version.  Works like advertised, now.

Comment 4 Thomas Woerner 2004-08-13 09:25:00 UTC

Please verify this with a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora
Core and reopen it against the new version if it still occurs.

Closing as "not a bug" for now.