[Server-devel] pppd restarting mysteriously

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Joshua N Pritikin<jpritikin at pobox.com> wrote:
> I looked at the options for wvdial and turned off anything suspicious. I
> don't think wvdial is implicated. It looks like something crazy with
> pppd. If I enable debug in /etc/ppp/options, will I see something extra
> in /var/log/messages?

/var/log/pppd.log I think.

> I have this vague feeling that I've seen this kind of failure before,
> but I can't recall the details. Was it some Fedora feature---network
> manager related---that I need to turn off? I even tried searching for my
> name and EVDO in google, but didn't find anything.

NM is off, gone. Bits of it may be installed but it's dead. XS uses
oldstyle network-scripts.



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