1. Topic:
A new pppd package is available that fixes the problem where pppd would
consistently dial twice in order to create a PPP connection.
2. Problem description:
A subtle bug in pppd showed up more often in the Red Hat Linux
environment than other environments, causing pppd to dial twice
when trying to bring up a PPP connection. Running "modprobe ppp"
before bringing up the connection causes the problem to happen
only once until reboot. The real fix is this new version of pppd,
ppp-2.3.10-3
3. Bug IDs fixed (see bugzilla for more information):
6347, 5663, 5992
4. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Linux 6.1, Intel
5. Obsoleted by:
None
6. Conflicts with:
None
7. RPMs required:
Intel:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/i386/
ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm
Source:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/en/os/SRPMS
ppp-2.3.10-3.src.rpm
8. Solution:
For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:
rpm -Uvh filename
where filename is the name of the RPM.
You will also want to get the initscripts errata from the security updates section of the errata.
9. Verification:
MD5 sum Package Name
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
135914383c928efaa230c6d4eeae28eb i386/ppp-2.3.10-3.i386.rpm
2119341612cf46790cc0b510ea7366a1 SRPMS/ppp-2.3.10-3.src.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key
is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/about/contact.html
You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm --checksig filename
If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or
tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:
rpm --checksig --nogpg filename
Note that you need RPM >= 3.0 to check GnuPG keys.
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