From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: Sometimes (I haven't figured out the causes) when I do /sbin/ifup pppX it never returns altough the link is up and usable. I've tried with more than one ISP and it still happens. When the problem happens, running top shows two ppp-watch processes along with pppd. How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. /sbin/ifup ppp0 2. 3. Actual Results: Sometimes I never get the command prompt back Expected Results: It should have returned to the command prompt after the link was up. Additional info: I'm running ipcheck from /etc/ppp/ip-up.local to update my dyndns.org account but it updates and returns normally (specifically when the problem occurs). I'm using ppp over a 56K modem line to my ISP.
ifup-ppp is syncrhonous. It should only return when the link goes down, or, if you call it when it's already up, after initiating a redial.
I've always used /sbin/ifup to bring up my ppp link and /sbin/ifdown to bring it down and before redhat 7.1 it returned back to the command line 100% of the times, now it only returns 90%.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39543 ***