Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Wed, 21 Jun:
> Let me do a wild guess - it used to fail after 10 retries?
> 
> "man pppd" (or even a lookup on linux-il archives) would have told you
> that "maxfail = 0" should solve the problem for you (at least it

no, that was the first thing I tried. I just had the line die, the ppp0
still showing up with ifconfig and pppd still sleeping. 

(the client was the type that goes and resets the router when there are
trouble. when the router died I offered to have the firewall do the
dialing, and he started resetting the linux. I could not teach him to
alt-ctrl-del.)

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Ira Abramov
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