From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 24 21:43:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA20685 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc53.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA20679 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 21:43:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA18420; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:45:48 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 22:45:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610250445.WAA18420@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: Peter Childs CC: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-stable new release In-Reply-To: <199610201426.XAA23391@al.imforei.apana.org.au> References: <199610201426.XAA23391@al.imforei.apana.org.au> Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199610190302.VAA29102@xmission.xmission.com> you wrote: : I've noticed that IIJPPP is not as stable in 2.1.5-R as could be hoped. : Have any improvements been made in this area? I've not seen much on the : -stable list lately; I'd like to be able to sup any changes and get : my system back to the stability I head in May/June. Peter Childs writes: > Hmm... can you define this more? I haven't seen any send-pr stuff. Yeah, I've been a bit lax about that. I've been so swamped by bugs and feature requests at work, I haven't had the heart to sit down and classify the problems carefully enough to send a pr. > I've done some work on both the -stable and -current distributions > of iijppp and I would be interested to know about your problems. The basic manifestation is demand dialed connections failing after several login/timeout cycles. Generally, it seems to happen after at least 3 or 4 cycles. Once ppp hangs in this manner, any attempt to stop ppp will hang the system -- Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't get it. I haven't really probed any further than that. I'm running -stable current as of late on Jun 7 1996; I am at this very minute in the process of doing a 'make world' after installing all src files from the 2.1.5 CD-ROM. If this fixes anything, I'll let you know. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com