From owner-freebsd-net Thu Nov 22 21:45: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from InterJet.dellroad.org (adsl-63-194-81-26.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.194.81.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E2837B405 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:45:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (arch20m.dellroad.org [10.1.1.20]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA39167; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAN5ejr90147; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:40:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200111230540.fAN5ejr90147@arch20m.dellroad.org> Subject: Re: Strange problem with PPP/Netgraph (PPPoE) In-Reply-To: <005601c17359$4ffda0f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> "from Matthew Emmerton at Nov 22, 2001 08:26:36 am" To: Matthew Emmerton Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 21:40:45 -0800 (PST) Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matthew Emmerton writes: > Any ideas on why doing an 'ifconfig rl0 up' before starting PPP (using set > device PPPoE:rl0) would cause this problem? (These machines are running > 4.3-REL-p20) There is a kernel bug in 4.3 where certain interfaces can't deal with an outgoing packet appearing while the interface is still marked down. Brian modified ppp(8) to workaround this by setting the interface to be 'UP' before sending any packets. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message