Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7395
ppp-watch fails
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
ppp-watch fails on boot up. It then reports backgrounding, and is happy from then on in. The upshot is the the ppp0 interface report [FAILED] at boot up & shutdown. Q. How does one register ppp line without dialing? Q. How is it contrived that the "daemon" parameter is past to ppp-watch via ifup-ppp0 ?
This is not a bug. It is reporting that it failed to bring up the interface within 30 seconds, but it will continue in the background. It would be inappropriate to call this a success, so we default to calling it a failure, but it may become a success in the future. I do not know what you mean by "register a ppp line without dialing". If you mean "how do you not dial at boot time" the answer is to change ONBOOT=yes to ONBOOT=no in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp* files. You can also do this from linuxconf by clicking a button. It's not contrived, it's simply done.
No. You do not understand, I wish to register the ppp0 interface but I do not wish to dial. Why? so that dial on demand can open the connection when traffic requires but not before. 'Register' is the term used by /var/log/messages and used to be deplayed to console during boot up. Therefore a believe it is valid term to use, and one that you should be aware of. Setting ONBOOT=no, does not register the interface, hence dial on demand is not in effect. It should/used to be possible to register the interface on boot up and receive a message to that effect from CSLIP how is this achieved now?
Oh, you want demand dialing. It is possible to set up demand dialing with pppd but we simply don't support that in our dialing scripts yet. We are considering it for a later release -- it's clearly a desirable feature, but we want to do it right and we want to integrate well with the rest of the system. I've deferred this, as it isn't precisely a bug, but rather a "wishlist" item for the future. (we want it too...)