Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 53432
wvdial retries forever on busy or no dialtone
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:36:58 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-kh5 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010621 Description of problem: If the modem is not connected, the destination number is busy or the line is currently in use at another extension, wvdial will always redial forever. I've patched wvdial to add "abort on busy" and "abort on no dial tone" options that allow the user to disable this automatic retrying. Patch will be attached. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Disconnect the phone line from the modem 2. /sbin/ifup ppp0 3. wvdial tries every 5 seconds until you take down ppp0 Additional info:
Created attachment 31354 [details] Patch to add "abort on busy" and "abort on no dial tone" options
BTW, wvdial development seems to have stopped. This is why I'm passing the patch to you guys rather than the author.
*** Bug 79677 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please note that bug 79677 was not the same behaviour as this bug. Bug 79677 describes a very quick retry (less than 1 second) which doesn't wait long enough for the far side to answer. In my case, wvdial continued to redial, as normal, when the modem replied BUSY or NO DIAL TONE. In many cases, this is correct, desired behaviour. However, in my case, I share the phone line with other people in the house. When they are on a call, I would like wvdial to only try dialling once, then give up. Hence my patch to add the ABORT ON BUSY and ABORT ON NO DIAL TIME options.
should work with current versions