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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Unreliable Kppp
From:       Werner.Joss () t-online ! de (Werner Joss)
Date:       2001-04-30 6:50:39
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On Sunday 29 April 2001 13:32, Chris Howells wrote:
> I've been using Kppp for a while (KDE 2.2.1), and have always had
> problems with its reliability.
>
> My system is Debian potato, kernel 2.4.3-2.4.4 and pppd 2.4.0. Ppp
> support is modular.
>
> I very frequently get "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly!" and "Exit
> status:16", just after the "Connect 45333/ARQ/V90/LAPM/V42BIS" in the
> debug window.
>
> /var/log/syslog shows the following:
>
> Apr 29 12:24:36 venus modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ppp0
> Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: pppd 2.4.0 started by chris, uid 1000
> Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: Using interface ppp0
> Apr 29 12:24:36 venus pppd[1021]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
> Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Modem hangup
> Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Connection terminated.
> Apr 29 12:24:38 venus pppd[1021]: Exit.
>
> and /etc/modules.conf containts the following:
>
> alias char-major-108    ppp_generic
> alias /dev/ppp          ppp_generic
> alias tty-ldisc-3       ppp_async
> alias tty-ldisc-14      ppp_synctty
> alias ppp-compress-21   bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24   ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26   ppp_deflate
> alias ppp0 ppp
>
> WVdial always dials reliably. Does anybody have any ideas how to make it
> more reliable?
>
> Cheers,

I also had problems like this with kppp in the past -
they could mostly be solved by playing around with options 'auth - noauth'
- anyway, I have switched to wvdial long time ago, this has always worked for 
me reliably.
I agree with andrew that kppp and wvdial do basically the same things:
-	dial the ISP
-	authenticate your id to the ISP
-	get an IP adress & set DNS server IP
-	start pppd

the difference is imho in the authentication process - whereas kppp only
uses the standard method, wvdial is capable of negotiating with the ISP 
dial-in program to figure out what authentication method is used, hence 
beeing more flexible.
btw., the standard internet dialer kinternet from suse is just a wrapper for 
wvdial, another thing to mention is that once correctly setup, you can use
wvdial also from a console window (great when a kde build from source 
breaks....)
werner
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