Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:40:45 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange problem with PPP/Netgraph (PPPoE) Message-ID: <200111230540.fAN5ejr90147@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <005601c17359$4ffda0f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> "from Matthew Emmerton at Nov 22, 2001 08:26:36 am"
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Matthew Emmerton writes: > Any ideas on why doing an 'ifconfig rl0 up' before starting PPP (using set > device PPPoE:rl0) would cause this problem? (These machines are running > 4.3-REL-p20) There is a kernel bug in 4.3 where certain interfaces can't deal with an outgoing packet appearing while the interface is still marked down. Brian modified ppp(8) to workaround this by setting the interface to be 'UP' before sending any packets. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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