Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

I had a LOT of trouble and I don't know what your problem might be but 
here's what helped for me:

(1) I now start the connection manually.
(2) Since I want machines on my LAN to participate and since networking 
automatically sets up a default route I down eth0 manually.
(3) I then kill gpm because it conflicts with the modem and I don't use the 
mouse in text mode
(4) I then check to see that /proc/sys/ipv4/ip_forward contains a '1'. This 
is supposed to be controlled by /etc/sysconfig/network but at some point it 
got turned off and I tore my hair out for days trying to figure out why my 
other machines couldn't surf.
(5) I change to /etc/ppp and invoke ppp-on (I might have copied this from 
the pppd documents directory '/usr/pppd-xxx/scripts').
(6) I up eth0
(7) Later, I use /etc/ppp/ppp-off to stop the connection

In terms of commands, that goes like this (all run as root)

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 down
killall gpm
echo 1 > /proc/sys/ipv4/ip_forward
cd /etc/ppp
./ppp-on
(wait for it to connect)
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
(surf, etc.)
./ppp-off

-Alan

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