[lug] pppd dropping after connection

[Daniel Webb]

I had a situation similar to this a few days ago, and I'll bet this will
help:  check out the /var/log/syslog file instead of /var/log/messages.
In my case, the problem was not evident from looking at messages, but was
totally obvious (well, sort of) from looking at syslog.  In my case, it
was because of a kernel compile, and I had forgotten to add the "async
serial" option in the kernel config.  When pppd went looking for that
particular character device, modprobe tried to load it and failed, leading
to a SIGTERM sent to pppd.

This was the line in syslog:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module tty-ldisc-3

I say it was sort of obvious because to realize that it was the ppp_async
module that was needed, I had to look in /etc/modules.conf and see the
line:
alias tty-ldisc-3       ppp_async

I wouldn't like to claim that I knew to do that, but actually I figured it
out from a Google search.  Long live Google!


 On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Elyse Grasso wrote:

> In the process of switching ISPs to frii.com. Trying to log in using wvdial.
> Things connect far enough that I'm given an ip address, then it announces
> that pppd has died (once with error code 13, once with error code 2) and that
> it is redialing. The redials don't get as far before they fail
>
> In /var/log/messages, it seems to get to a line that says
>  Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> sometimes followed by
>  Remote message: Request Denied
>  PAP authentication failed
> before it bails.
>
> The successful connection to my old ISP goes on from there with  lines about
> compression modules, default routes, ip and dns addresses, etc.
>
> FRII says the connection is being authenticated or I wouldn't see the message
> about the ip address in the command line window (which is confusing when
> compared to the message log). Is it possible that it is actually the
> compression negotiation that is failing sometimes?
>
> Any suggestions for ways to track this down?
>
> Thanks
> Elyse
>
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