From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 15 12:19:44 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA21294 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:19:44 -0700 Received: from atlas.ontos.com (ontos.tiac.net [199.3.131.94]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA21288 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 12:19:41 -0700 Reply-To: mull@atlas.ontos.com Received: (mull@localhost) by atlas.ontos.com (8.6.8/8.6.5) id PAA22655; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:18:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 15:18:11 -0400 From: Chris Mullendore Message-Id: <199504151918.PAA22655@atlas.ontos.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is there a PPP bug in 2.0-RELEASE of FreeBSD which causes a reboot? Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My symptom is that once I get the ppp link up and start to use it moderately (for example connect a remote emacs X client to my local X server), my system reboots! I've been unable to find a dump file for the kernel - thought it should be in /var/crash. I saw the following in comp.os.386bsd.questions: > From: pfrevel@World-net.sct.fr (pierre revel) > Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions > Subject: Re: HELP: How to get PPP working on FreeBSD 2.0 ? > Date: 30 Mar 1995 07:24:58 GMT > ... but don't forget to patch the file "if_ppp.c". The PPP daemon in R2.0 has > a bug ! Is this so and how can I get the fix without grabbing a whole new distribution? (I have the sources for 2.0). Thanks. Chris Mullendore or