Bug 78220 – ppp-watch dies far too easily, giving poor link tenacity

Bug 78220 - ppp-watch dies far too easily, giving poor link tenacity

Summary:	ppp-watch dies far too easily, giving poor link tenacity

Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2002-11-20 04:20 EST by ian
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:32 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2005-09-29 17:19:40 EDT
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Description ian 2002-11-20 04:20:51 EST

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.

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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.

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 17:19:40 EDT

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.

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