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Subject: Re: PPP Bus Error
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In message: <286AD52D-FCA7-4814-97B7-2870B42488C6@uchicago.edu>
            Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu> writes:
: I'm trying to establish a PPPoE connection and both ppp and mpd exit  
: with bus errors, and weird traces. Reading through the list, I see  
: someone experienced a similar error last year. Because they both  
: fail, I suspect the bug is in the netgraph ppp stuff (an alignment  
: bug, maybe?), but I was interested in knowing whether anyone else has  
: solved this problem already. Thanks,

I'd check all the alignment of structures.  I suspect that's what's
doing you in...  Not all the code in the FreeBSD kernel has been
carefully audited for proper structure alignment.

Warner