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Date:      Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:24 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@render.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.mt.net>
Cc:        didier@aida.org, Nate Williams <nate@sri.mt.net>, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ppp server
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960128151318.4000F-100000@minnow.render.com>
In-Reply-To: <199601222144.OAA23044@rocky.sri.MT.net>

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On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Nate Williams wrote:

> > > > I tryed "ppp -dedicated" but it works only once. 
> > > 
> > > Have you read the instructions in the handbook?  Are your modems setup
> > > correctly?   Details, details....
> > > 
> > 
> > I read the handbook, But I only find some information about kernel ppp
> > the modem seems to be working. I think that there is a bug somewhere
> > in user ppp used with -dedicated. I got a 8Mb core file!.
> 
> There are some bugs with user ppp.  When I used it for a dedicated line,
> it wouldn't work more than a day w/out dumping core.  However, Doug
> Rabson is looking at some patches (Doug, how are they looking?) which
> make it more robust.
> 
> > I'll try a to setup a (user) ppp server with an access through login
> 
> My advice is to switch to kernel pppd until the bugs in user-ppp are
> fixed unless you have the time and desire to track them down.

I think I will commit it in the next couple of days.  I would have done 
this before but I unexpectedly had to spend a week in Redmond.  My 
modified ppp stayed up the whole week as well :-)

--
Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd.	Mail:  dfr@render.com
						Phone: +44 171 251 4411
						FAX:   +44 171 251 0939




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