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Date:      Sat, 9 Sep 1995 15:23:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        melvin@zytek.com (Stephen Melvin)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Patch to PPP code (magic disagreement on echo reply)
Message-ID:  <199509091323.PAA01604@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508262025.NAA08775@syzygy.zytek.com> from "Stephen Melvin" at Aug 26, 95 01:25:42 pm

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As Stephen Melvin wrote:

> I applied the patch shown below to /usr/src/usr.sbin/ppp/fsm.c.  It
> was not actually affecting anything but I got tired of seeing
> endless error messages in the log file.  I don't know if the problem
> is with ppp or with Trumpet 2.0B (a Windows PPP driver), but ppp was
> sending echo request packets with its magic number and expecting a
> reply with the magic number that Trumpet had previously requested.
> Instead, Trumpet simply sends a reply packet with the same magic
> number it got in the request packet.

Btw., FreeBSD 2.0.5's (at least) pppd as the remote peer was in the
same boat. :) Thanks, commited.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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