topic Re: Help with pppd in Operating System - Linux

Help with pppd

Stefan Saliba — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 06:03:56 GMT

My problem is this. I have a linux box which I use to connect to an ADSL connection and I also have a ppp dial-in account on the same machine.

So when the ADSL connection is up and a ppp dial-in account user is logged in I have 2 instances of pppd running.

My problem is this. When a dial-up user tries to disconnect he will manage but it will leave the pppd deamon still running and does not re-spawn the mgetty process and hence no user will login again. The interface goes down but pppd stays up. I will need to kill it manually.

Anyone knows why this happens ?

Re: Help with pppd

Paul R. Dittrich — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:37:43 GMT

I had the impression that the pppd was only for dial-ups and that ADSL used a separate process (pppoe) instead.

Paul

Re: Help with pppd

Stefan Saliba — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 11:39:29 GMT

I am using pptp with an Alcatel Speedtouch and this uses pptp and pppd

Stefan

Re: Help with pppd

Liran Cohen — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 11:48:39 GMT

Thats the way it should work , I guess it i should be polished ..

look here: http://www.rhapsodyk.net/adsl/HOWTO/#s3.5

TheOg

Re: Help with pppd

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:45:33 GMT

I would expect the pppd to stay up if you don't have
the hangup passed by the modem
to the pppd.

You likely want different parameters for the dial-up and
ADLS connections. You can have separarate or adddtional
configuration files by using
the device name as a suffix
for the configuration files.
Check the examples directory.

Re: Help with pppd

Stefan Saliba — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:47:35 GMT

Yes but the problem is that when ADSL disconnects it does "killall pppd" and so it kills both it's session and the dial-up session

Re: Help with pppd

Bill Thorsteinson — Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:47:48 GMT