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To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: I/O Errors with PPP 
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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:29:13 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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

This is done from pppattach() at boot time *unless* you're modloading
the stuff.
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