From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paulius Zaleckas Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:09:35 +0000 Subject: Re: PPP: "Re: IPCP with mobile ISP sometimes gives bogus DNS address" Message-Id: <48773F6F.3010308@teltonika.lt> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Also you can take a look at my patch recently posted to linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Re: PPP difficulties regarding connection establishment and bogus DNS received 07/01/2008 02:50 PM Markus Becker wrote: > Hi all, > > several 3G cards (e.g. from Option) are reporting 10.11.12.13 as DNS > server, when they are not yet attached to a network, as you probably > know, see http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&w=2&r=1&s=bogus+DNS&q=b > > There seem to be 2 possible solutions to this: > 1) Patch PPP to accept MS-WINS settings and use high values for > ipcp-max-configure, ipcp-max-failure, ipcp-max-terminate and/or > ipcp-restart. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugD5711 . > (I am using the mentioned patch currently. Works fine for me.) > > 2) Checking with AT command CGATT, whether the device is attached to a > network and only try to dial in when this is true. > (http://marc.info/?l=linux-ppp&m1305432406467&w=2) > > In order to get this fixed, I have several questions: > > a) The Debian bug report states, this has been sent upstream. Has > upstream accepted, denied or forgotten about it? Is there an upstream > bugzilla for > linux-ppp? > > b) Marco, could this patch be part of the Debian package? Dan, how is > this done in Fedora? > > c) Dan, could solution 2 be integrated into NM? > > Markus > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >