I spent a lot of time with this issue, about one year ago. My main problem was bizar:
Although my script killed and/or reset everything it could, before trying to re-connect, the ISP still "thought" that I was connected, and refused to re-connect me, claiming that there is a "CHAP" problem and that the user is already connected. This was, of course, not true, and any manual check, by an ISP, could find easily that the "connected" user is not connected, and that this "connection" is "done" through the same physical line that I'm trying to re-connect now. So it must be impossible that the user is still connected... The only solution was to call the ISP and ask him to "reset" me. But this required me to monitor the connection 24 hours at day, and call the ISP immediately when something went wrong. A friend of me worked for a start-up that develops the RAS servers to serve ADSL users on the ISP side, and he told me that this is a known bug of the Cisco RAS used by most ISPs. But when discussing issues like "redbacks" and other terms that are like Chinese for me, I can't repeat the description exactly, so please excuse me... Since I've never seen such a problem with dialers of Windows, I'm sure that there must be something to do with it from the Linux side; I don't know if it requires a patch in the PPtP/PPP code, or better scripts, or whatever; Maybe even the current scripts (of Noam) deal with it. Does anybody else know what I'm talking about?! ;-) -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
