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Subject: Re: bin/3885: User PPP hangs forever with -ddial 
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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 02:49:56 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> 
> >Number:         3885
> >Category:       bin
> >Synopsis:       /usr/bin/ppp -ddial sleeps forever instead of redial
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       critical
> >Priority:       high
> >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   current-users
> >Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 16 13:30:01 PDT 1997
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Andrew Stesin
> >Organization:
> just me
> >Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970612-RELENG i386
> >Environment:
> FreeBSD connected to cisco 2511 with 57600 async LL
> 
> 	The condifuration is pretty much usual.  Some recent
> 	version of PPP (pre-2.2.2) worked well and still does.
> 
> >Description:
> 
> 	Permanent PPP LL connection starts form /etc/start_if.tun0
> 	but the problem occurs after manual dial as well.
> 
> 	After a carrier drop PPP doesn't redial, log shows
> 	that it goes to a state when the last 3 messages
> 	in the log are:
> 
> ... LCP: State change Req-Sent --> Stopped
> ... LCP: LcpLayerFinish
> ... Phase: NewPhase: Dead
> 
> 	... and it just sits there forever.
> 
> 	If I telnet 127.0.0.1 3000 then after a few different "show"
> 	commands I noticed that redial timer (is set to 5 seconds
> 	and 999 attempts) is not decremented, PPP just sits at
> 	"3 seconds remained until a redial attempt" or alike.
> 
> 	"3 seconds" aren't changing.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> 	I think that just launch /usr/bin/ppp -ddial to something
> 	which speaks PPP, and wait (or provoce) a carrier drop
> 	or line disconnect.
> 
> 	I did this a few times with identical results.
> 
> >Fix:
> 	
> 	Considering the fact that recently some changes
> 	were applied to PPP, I think that some damage was
> 	done to PPP state machine with regard to redialing,
> 	it worked in pre-2.2.2 days.
> 
> 	Nothing more detailed, sorry. The testbed is here
> 	and I'm ready to do any test and actions one would
> 	like me to do in order to discover problem source.
> 
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:

Can you try out the current version from RELENG_2_2 -
main.c version 1.22.2.26 and drop me a line with your
successes/failures ?  Thanks.
-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....