diff -Nur rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-description rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-description
--- rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-description	Sat Jul 21 21:18:46 2001
+++ rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-description	Fri Aug 23 17:56:05 2002
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@
     		DISCONNECTTIMEOUT=<number of seconds, default currently 5>
     		RETRYTIMEOUT=<number of seconds, default currently 60>
     		INITSCRIPT=<modem command>
+		SHUTDOWNSLEEP=<seconds to wait for pppd shutdown before giving up, default 2>
     		DATAFORCHAT=<list of variables>
     		<anything>=<anything> (for chat script)
 		IPV6_PPP=yes|no (use IPv6 for ppp ?)
diff -Nur rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-ppp0.tpsa rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-ppp0.tpsa
--- rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-ppp0.tpsa	Thu Aug 16 15:11:20 2001
+++ rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/interfaces/ifcfg-ppp0.tpsa	Fri Aug 23 17:54:34 2002
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 USER=ppp
 PASSWORD=ppp
 INITSTRING=ATe0s2=255
+SHUTDOWNSLEEP=10
 DATAFORCHAT="USER PASSWORD INITSTRING PHONE"
 
 REPORTFILE=/var/log/ppp0.log
diff -Nur rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp
--- rc-scripts-0.3.1.orig/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp	Tue May 15 18:06:00 2001
+++ rc-scripts-0.3.1/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-ppp	Fri Aug 23 17:52:21 2002
@@ -38,7 +38,11 @@
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post $1
   exit 0
 fi
-sleep 2
+if [ -n "$SHUTDOWNSLEEP" ]; then
+  sleep $SHUTDOWNSLEEP
+else
+  sleep 2
+fi
 if [ ! -d /proc/$PID ]; then
   /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-post $1
   exit 0