Upgraded from RH6.0 to RH6.1. Now when I start my ppp0 interface to make a modem connection to my ISP it fails every time on the first attempt but is successful on the second try. Worked fine before the upgrade.
I believe that this is a bug in pppd. I have not yet isolated it. This did not show up on my system until I upgrade to ppp-2.3.10 from ppp-2.3.9. The cause of the problem is not apparant from inspecting a diff between ppp-2.3.9 and ppp-2.3.10.
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I was running ppp-2.3.7 before the upgrade from 6.0 -> 6.1, and the upgrade caused the same problems for me. Ie, it dials, connects, negotiates ppp & hangs up & redials & connects again. The upgrade logs show nothing except that the ppp-2.3.7 docs were unsucessfully removed.
I was having a slightly different problem with pppd. That is, it successfully connected, DNS lookup and ping worked O.K., but TCP connections would hang (most of the time). Here's a possible clue: I notice that in the system log, the kernel claims to be running PPP version 2.3.7, while the pppd is version 2.3.10. Perhaps the wrong PPP support was compiled into the kernel. Anyway, reverting to pppd version 3.2.7 solved the problem for me.
Same problem on a RH6.1 installed from scratch, same ppp version 2.3.7 log. Once (actually no more investigations done) pppd activated himself with wrong IP address for local side, assuming the ethernet one. Obviously no routing possible... [P.S.: sorry, I don't speak english...]
I have the very same problem since upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.1 [....] Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate chat[582]: PPP session from (194.206.126.219) to 195.146.225.251 beginning....~ Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate chat[582]: -- got it Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate chat[582]: send (^M) Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate pppd[570]: Serial connection established. Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate pppd[570]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 31 23:03:20 socrate pppd[570]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Oct 31 23:03:21 socrate pppd[570]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 31 23:03:21 socrate pppd[570]: Connection terminated. Oct 31 23:03:22 socrate pppd[570]: Hangup (SIGHUP) Oct 31 23:03:22 socrate pppd[570]: Exit. Oct 31 23:03:24 socrate ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp1 on /dev/modem at 115200 [...] Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate chat[596]: PPP session from (194.206.126.176) to 195.146.225.42 beginning....~ Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate chat[596]: -- got it Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate chat[596]: send (^M) Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate pppd[587]: Serial connection established. Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate pppd[587]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 31 23:04:00 socrate pppd[587]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem Oct 31 23:04:03 socrate kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Oct 31 23:04:03 socrate kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Oct 31 23:04:04 socrate pppd[587]: local IP address 195.146.225.42 Oct 31 23:04:04 socrate pppd[587]: remote IP address 194.206.126.176 Oct 31 23:04:04 socrate pppd[587]: primary DNS address 194.206.126.253
Please try ftp://people.redhat.com/johnsonm/ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm and see if it fixes this problem for you.
I have been testing ppp-2.3.10-3 for the last two days and it seems to fix the problem completely for me.
ppp-2.3.10-3 is now working for me as well. Thanks.
Thanks y'all for testing! The -3 release that went out as an official errata item is the same package that I made available for you, so no need to download the new package.