Weird diald behavior
Recently I decided to revamp my ppp and diald setup and adopt the
script strategy that the new version of ppp uses rather than my old
kludge. Well, my experience proves the old saying, "if it ain't
broke..." ;-)
Here's the problem I'm having. If I connect to my ISP using the ppp
package's script "pon" (e.g. "pon ncia") everything is rock solid.
The system runs beautifully.
I've got diald setup, diald will dial out properly, everything will
connect to the internet just fine. However, after about a minute or
two of perfectly working internet usage, the system will dump the
carrier.
This is not a problem of ISP (I've tried it on two) and is not on the
phone line (as I said, if I do a "pon ncia" everything is rock solid
and I can stay on the net literally for days).
I have my "connect" parameter of diald.options pointing to
"/usr/bin/pon ncia" and the "disconnect" parm pointing at
"/usr/bin/poff". I have diald.option's "ip-up" parameter pointing to
"/etc/ppp/ip-up" and "ip-down" pointing to "/etc/ppp/ip-down".
Something must be going astray in the initial logon sequence. What
I'm suspecting is that the pon script might be timing out; does anyone
know if this is possible?
Also, is it foolish/recursive to have diald's diald-option "ip-up" and
"ip-down" parameters pointing to the same files as ppp runs for
"ip-up" and "ip-down"? Could this be the source of my problem? Any
thoughts on what might be happening would be greatly appreciated.
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