From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 16 12:01:22 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA09956 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:01:22 -0800 Received: from scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA09951 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:01:20 -0800 From: grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id MAA06351 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 1995 12:01:34 -0800 Message-Id: <199511162001.MAA06351@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU> X-Authentication-Warning: scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more on problems with PPP In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 15 Nov 95 18:55:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 16 Nov 95 12:01:34 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > But I have found something else. > When running over an ISDN "modem", ppp is going into a tight loop after > a few minutes, preventing any further packets from getting through. Yet further more information: This bug was not reproducible last night, which sucks. But I found a _new_ problem (I was debugging this over the phone, so I couldn't get a lot of information from the non-techie on the other end). With the appropriate configuration, doing a "ppp isdn", then a dial from within the ppp worked fine. But doing a "ppp -auto isdn" resulted in an error after doing a SIOCIAFADDR (I think). I don't remember the error string off-hand, unfortunately. This error happens sporadically when the connection is explicitly established with "dial", but happens _every_ time with "-auto", before a connection is actually made -- that is, it happens when ppp is trying to initialize the run interface (I assume), _not_ when it makes the ISDN connection. And yet it _only_ happens with the ISDN connection (which also has a different configuration due to a faster connection to the modem (115200), and a different ifaddr). I just had enough time to look through the PPP code and find the one place it occurred, but since it was only reproducible by my friend over the phone, I'm not sure how to easily debug this. So again, I'll ask if anyone has seen this. I haven't gotten much in the way of help with this stuff, so if you haven't bothered answering because you figure someone else has probably answered, please reconsider... Thanks for any help. Steven