Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:41:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: "Phastnet" <phastnet@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: server ppp problem Message-ID: <200002181641.QAA00833@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from "Phastnet" <phastnet@bellsouth.net> of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:37:09 EST." <012d01bf7909$08d7f320$02ac14ac@mia.bellsouth.net>
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> Hi, I have FreeBSD 3.3R running as a dialup ppp server for at least a month
> now. Everything has been working perfectly until yesterday. Now, if a user
> disconnects improperly (such as pulling the phone cord out of his modem),
> the server doesn't realize it! When it happened yesterday, the server was
> denying him access, until I killed the ppp -direct process that was still
> running, then he connected fine. It has happened a few more times today
> (not sure what happened on their end), so I did some testing. It is
> definitely just a problem when the user end disconnects suddenly, but it was
> allowing me to log back in as any username, and would look like it was still
> the original user!! Anyone have any ideas why the server isn't noticing the
> dropped connections? Thanks for you help, and please let me know if this is
> the wrong mailing list!! (I am trying to set this up as an ISP, so it SHOULD
> be the right place)
This is in the 3.3 ERRATA.TXT. If you upgrade to the latest (or even
the latest -stable) version, the problem will go away.
> Shawn
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