[LineControl-development] LineSrv pppd Error handling

[Timothy W. <we...@ti...>]

I'm posting this here because there are few subscribers to the users lists.
Sometimes when I connect with linesrv the ppp connection fails to
initiate properly. Unfortunately linesrv isn't detecting the error.
I am using pon and poff for the scripts so I'm wondering how it actually
detects a failed dial attempt.
As far as I can see /var/run/ppp-Provider.pid remains although the pppd
process has finished. Both pppd and chat have exited.
Looking through the src I can see that for a ppp connection it checks to
see when ppp0 is up. Wouldn't it make more sense to also check to see if
pppd is running?
i.e. if (line_status(line) = CST_DIALING) {
              /* Check if line is up yet */
              /* Check if pppd is still active, if pppd has died then
return \
                   status to CST_DOWN and send client an error */
        }

Any other suggestions on how this can be achieved? I can change the
con_type to file and have a ip-up.d/connected script that creates a file
but I'm not 100% sure of con_type file
I'm going to try con_timeout with 120 seconds to see how that goes,
otherwise I'll try con_type file.

Thanks

Tim

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