From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 28 19:20:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA22846 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 19:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA22813 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 19:20:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA14894; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:25 GMT Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 15:15:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Nate Williams cc: didier@aida.org, Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp server In-Reply-To: <199601222144.OAA23044@rocky.sri.MT.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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