From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 06:39:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29387 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heaven.gigo.com (ppp.gigo.com [207.173.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29350; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:38:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfesler@gigo.com) Received: by heaven.gigo.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA10265; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:37:42 -0800 (PST) X-SMTP: helo heaven.gigo.com from jfesler@gigo.com server jfesler@heaven.gigo.com ip 207.173.133.57 Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:37:39 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Fesler To: Kris Kennaway cc: Dmitry Valdov , Brian Somers , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sorry for the "implicit bug report", Brian, but I've been meaning to track > this down for a long time and make sure it's not user error. I often see this I've had this since the 2.2.2 days when I first started running ppp. After a while (hours, days, weeks - random) either carrier isn't noticed as being missing, or all outgoing packets don't cross the serial cable to to the other side. After a while I kinda gave up. I now every few minutes fping a few hosts on the nearby remote side. If they _all_ fail (a good 10 second timeout is given) then I kill -9 the ppp session, wait 2 seconds, then restart ppp. It's caught every strange random bug on either side soon enough that I no longer have to try and call home and walk the wife through ppp.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message