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To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@keystone.westminster.edu>
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Subject: Re: Install 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Sep 1997 21:01:22 EDT."
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 14 Sep 1997, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> > I wonder if this is the information overload bug rearing it's ugly head
> > again. There was (is?) a known bug with ppp that will cause it to drop out
> > under heavy traffic.  You might try a newer boot floppy and use the
> > options menu and tell it it's installing 2.2.2-RELEASE instead.
> Never had a problem with PPP, even under heavy load, back when I had the
> machine up.  What newer boot floppy?  I was using the newer/boot.flp under
> 2.2.2-RELEASE, the 2.1.7.1 is older, and the 3.0-SNAP kernel from
> ftp.freebsd.org page faults after the kernel config thingy.
> Or shouldn't it do that...?

Under heavy load, LQR packets sometimes don't make it to the other 
side.  This makes ppp think the link is down and it terminates.  LQR
is now disabled by default for this reason.

[.....]
> > 
> > Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> > Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
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> > 
> 
> :-}  MAtt
> (.sig sym-linked to /dev/null)
> 

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