Sounds normal. What do you have set for parameters holdoff and maxfail? Perhaps you need non-default values. Ten is the default on my Debian system for maxfail, which means your method would work ten times. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html