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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 14:22:11 -0700
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: I/O Errors with PPP
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Simon Shapiro wrote:
> 
> Hi Y'all,
> 
> This is a continuation of a problem we encounter when running the new DPT
> SCSI driver on a Pentium Pro machine.
> 
> To make long stories short, here is what we did:
> 
> *  Setup kernel PPP session to our favorite ISP.  We tried, V34, 64K ISDN
>    and 128Kb ISDN.  Same result.
> 

y'know one of the effects of running ppp is to OR together the interrupt
masks for splimp() and spltty()
so that they effectively are the same mask.
I'm not sure if this is done at boot time or when ppp is started,
but it might be worth checking out.

(not that you are running at splimp or spltty, but there might
be some side-effect that I'm not aware of)

julian