Thanks James. Here is the current options file for our pppd. plugin pppoe.so eth1 nodetach nodefaultroute persist maxfail 0 noauth user ashmat nopcomp lcp-max-failure 5 lcp-max-configure 10 lcp-max-terminate 2 lcp-restart 3 lcp-echo-failure 3 lcp-echo-interval 10 mru 1492 usepeerdns linkname 2 unit 2 I do see the nodetach option. I have to understand this from my colleagues why its not running as daemon. So I think setting maxfail to 1 should do the trick i.e, pppd should exit immediately after a failed connection attempt. Will pppd exit if lcp echo timesout as well ? On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:14 PM, James Carlson <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ashmath Khan wrote: >> Thanks James. >> >> I do understand the daemon part. We do run the pppd as daemon that is >> in the background, we don't run from terminal but an application runs >> this. And able to catch exit codes as well ! > > The controlling terminal in that case is the one (if any) that's > inherited from your application. > >> But pppd doesn't exit if say authetication fails, instead it will retry. > > Then I think you've got it misconfigured. pppd doesn't do that by default. > > If you see otherwise, then please post complete debug logs along with > all of your configuration settings. > >> I did have a look at maxfail: >> maxfail n >> Terminate after n consecutive failed connection attempts. A value >> of 0 means no limit. The default value is 10. >> >> I wanted to have 0 retries. Is there a way ? > > Using 1 would do what you want. > > But that parameter has no meaning if you've configured pppd correctly > for your situation. "maxfail" does something if you're using "persist" > or "demand." It doesn't do anything otherwise. > > You shouldn't have to touch that. > > -- > James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <carlsonj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- 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
