From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 20 09:35:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26288 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:35:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [208.131.56.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26281 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:35:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from devnull (devnull.calweb.com [208.131.56.69]) by mail.calweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA00238; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:32:08 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970320093130.00a74ad0@gigo.com> Warning: Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) will be returned to send in bulk X-Sender: jfesler@gigo.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:31:30 -0800 To: faried nawaz From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: tun0/user ppp lockups? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970320082355.57030@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:23 AM 3/20/97 -0800, you wrote: >on 2.2-gamma dated ~ feb 27, i see this problem every day, perhaps 1-2 >times. it's very annoying. ppp stops responding and starts chewing cpu. >i end up killing ppp (w/ -9), doing ifconfig tun0 delete, route delete >default, and dialing in again. Blah... At least you found a way around it. I'll have to code something up that will look for the situation, and do all that. I was killing PPP, but not ifconfig'ing it. Thanks for the pointer. >my main reason for using ppp is the packet aliasing -- i need that. :-) I just need it for a connection :-). I may try kernel PPP (blah, user PPP worked _too_ easily), as long as I can still use ipfw on it. -- Jason Fesler