From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 14:02:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA23265 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:02:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23211; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 14:02:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09191; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:39:27 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA17466; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:40:54 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199811102140.VAA17466@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jason Fesler cc: Kris Kennaway , Dmitry Valdov , Brian Somers , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 06:37:39 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:40:53 +0000 From: Brian Somers 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. Ppp won't expect carrier if it's not detected when ppp starts doing LCP. This allows null-modem cables without the correct wiring to work. As I've said to a couple of these posts - enable debug logging and you'll see the carrier status reported every second. You can also ``show modem'' to see what things look like. > 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.. Ppp should be a lot more reliable these days. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message