Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:55:54 -0500 From: Benjamin Lewis <blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu> To: FreeBSD-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp Message-ID: <199512190555.AAA04015@localhost>
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> On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Paul Richards wrote: > > > Whatever the cause, dial-on-demand is broken and there's at least two > > of us seeing the problem. > > dial-on-demand, user land ppp, is solid for me. i am running > 2.1R with a sportster 14.4 and asus sp3g on-board uarts. > Just to add another weirdness to the pile, iijppp doesn't do demand dialing for me either, but in a different way than I've seen other people mention. I can use it to do a regular dialin with no problem... well, I did have to do a bit of hacking on the source to get it to work 100%. My login script is extremely long (I have to log in to an annex, log into a computer, bounce back to the annex to set it to do 8 bits properly, bounce back to the computer and start up SLiRP), and it wasn't sending the last few characters, and thus failed to actually start up the PPP process. I hacked the length of the array that contains the script (was a long time ago, don't remember details), recompiled, and all was peachy keen for vanilla usage. I could type "ppp vet" and it would happily start the ppp process and everything was great. However, if I tried "ppp -demand vet" and sent a packet, it would dial up, log in, start the remote ppp, and core dump. At that point I gave up hacking on it, and went with pppd. I figured (still do) that either I broke something when I hacked the array length, or that some other weirdness peculiar to my system is responsible, especially as I didn't see hordes of complaints on the newsgroups and mailing lists. Now, I think that maybe my problem might just be an exaggerated version of other people's difficulties. Perhaps the extra long script is just tickling a bug a little harder or something. Since my C coding skills were just about exhuasted by changing [512] to [1024] or whatever it was, I can't be of any more help than sending copies of my config files to interested parties. Oh, the original ppp binary I had was from the last 2.1-SNAP, as is the rest of my userland stuff, but I went and snagged the 2.1.0-RELEASE iijppp source code for my hacking. -Ben "waiting for a kernel written in TCL so *I* can hack on it :)" Lewis -- Benjamin Lewis (blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu)
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