On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, William R. Dickson wrote:
> "persist" doesn't quite work for me.  My connection drops once or twice a
> day (crappy modem or crappy phone line, not sure which).  For 2-4 days,
> pppd works as expected and the "persist" option detects the failure and
> brings the connection back up.  But eventually, there comes a point where
> the connection starts going up and down like a yo-yo; up for a couple
> seconds, then down until persist decides to bring it back up, repeat ad
> infinitum.  So I'm going back to the old ttys trick for the time being, as
> described in the FAQ.  Anybody else seen behavior like this?

Are you using PAP authentication? If you are, how old is your pppd? There
was a problem, fixed around the end of June, that would cause pppd to quit
working after a couple of connect/disconnect cycles if you were using PAP.

Since that bug was fixed, I've been able to use demand and persist for
weeks without having to kill and restart pppd. (Well, maybe 2 weeks max...
my 386 that runs pppd panics with something like "lockmgr: locking against
myself" every once in a while.)
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