I have Upgraded from 6.0 to 6.1, It seems the transition of the PPP is not what it should be. PPP will fail to activate at boot, will connect in the background at boot of Gnome GUI screen, However, once the ISP idles the the system drops the connection and system will NOT reconnect auto. It seems at boot if the initial PPP fails the auto ifup also will shutdown. Though I am connected, if I enter netcfg the status shown in the interface is Inactive, if flagged Active then I loss all PPP access! ?? Now If I select the PPP option not to be active at boot, then go into netcfg and select active the system then performs normally. I need However to have a unattended watch due to the power outages we experience, I need a fix to rid me of this problem. I have updated "Up2date" all security and updates. no problems installing. Still no Fix in my problem. Can you get me a fix of a script that I could drop in and how to add to the boot area as to auto run the interface in netcfg to make ppp active?? Thanks :) Don
Could you check to see that both ONBOOT and PERSIST are set to yes in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0? If not, please send in the contents of that file. (with any sensitive information like passwords removed and replace with dummy data, of course).
[per private email, ONBOOT and PERSIST are on] The best way to try and start the interface up last is probably to set ONBOOT to no, and add the command "/sbin/ifup ppp0" to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local script, which is executed last during the bootup process. If you're using wu-ftpd 2.0.9, I strongly suggest upgrading to the 2.6.0 security update, which fixes a security vulnerability. This wouldn't affect your ability to access your ISP's FTP server, however. Most likely that is an issue with the way they have their FTP server configured. If you can get in using a PC at your home but not from elsewhere, then it appears that their server is configured to only allow connections over their clients' PPP connections. You may have better luck if you empty (or comment out) the IPADDR and REMIP variables in ifcfg-ppp0. If your ISP is assigning you the address given in IPADDR, it may well be that while it works correctly as a PPP link, an address like 192.163.97.1 may not interact well with their network servers.