[tlug] ppp hangup

[Botond Botyanszki <botond@example.com>]

Seems like this is not my lucky week.

My pppd+pppoe connection keeps dying sometimes and it doesn't restart
itself, though I have all the suggested magic words in my options (like
persist and holdoff).

These are the logs: 

May 22 14:24:58 siliconium kernel: PPPIOCDETACH file->f_count=3
May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppoe[202]: Sent PADT
May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Connection terminated.
May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Connect time 3217.5 minutes.
May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Sent 34947274 bytes, received
1532953341 bytes.May 22 14:24:58 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't release
PPP unit: Invalid argument
May 22 14:25:13 siliconium pppd[200]: Serial connection established.
May 22 14:25:13 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't create new ppp unit:
Inappropriate ioctl for device
May 22 14:25:28 siliconium pppd[200]: Serial connection established.
May 22 14:25:28 siliconium pppd[200]: Couldn't create new ppp unit:
Inappropriate ioctl for device

It seems to me that pppd tries to reconnect indeed, but can't. The only
solution I have right now is to check for the connection from a cron
script and restart. 
I did google, and it threw me quite a few hits (e.g.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.3/1040.html) with this
problem, but nobody seems to know what's going on. 
My kernel is 2.4.20-rc2, ppp is 2.4.1.uus-5.

Maybe I should go back to potato...