Bug 78220

Summary:	ppp-watch dies far too easily, giving poor link tenacity
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	ian
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description ian 2002-11-20 09:20:51 UTC

Description of Problem:
ppp-watch seems to die leaving systems without their permanent internet 
connection.  Even with options in ifcfg-ppp0 like "onboot=yes" "persist=yes" 
ppp-watch will give up and terminate when having dial problems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:
Simply turning the modem off and on will reproduce the problem.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Turn modem off and on
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Actual Results:
Nov 20 15:56:37 mail wvdial[2530]: Sending: ATZ
Nov 20 15:56:42 mail wvdial[2530]: Sending: ATQ0
Nov 20 15:56:42 mail wvdial[2530]: Re-Sending: ATZ
Nov 20 15:56:47 mail wvdial[2530]: Modem not responding.
Nov 20 15:56:47 mail pppd[2508]: Connect script failed
Nov 20 15:56:55 mail pppd[2508]: Exit.

Expected Results:


Additional Information:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 21:19:40 UTC

Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of
response.

If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.