RE: pppd needs to dial twice

["Rob Cartier" <rcartier snet net>]

I am using netcfg with chat.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: joebuck mail swelltech com [mailto:joebuck mail swelltech com]On
>Behalf Of Joe Cooper
>Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 9:29 PM
>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>Subject: Re: pppd needs to dial twice
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>Rob Cartier wrote:
>> 
>> I have a problem with RH 6.1 using pppd. It keeps
>> redialing twice everytime it needs to make a demand dialing
>> connection. I have download the latest pppd rpm
>> but it still has the same results. I am using
>> a US Robotics V.90 sportster and issue a ATZ4 command
>> for the init string.
>
>Are you using mgetty or vgetty in inittab?  I experienced this too
>before switching to efax.  I never did get all of the quirks worked
>out.  Though switching back to using the old netcfg instead of rp3 to
>setup ppp fixed the double dial issue.  (rp3 has several other 
>bugs that
>made it unusable for me anyway...IP aliases make it blowup, even after
>updating to the version that was supposed to fix it.)
>-- 
>Joe Cooper <joe swelltech com>
>http://www.swelltech.com
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