From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Feb 18 14:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-82.max4-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.9.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714F537BAD9 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 14:30:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA35311; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 21:11:42 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00833; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:41:16 GMT (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200002181641.QAA00833@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Phastnet" Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: server ppp problem In-Reply-To: Message from "Phastnet" of "Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:37:09 EST." <012d01bf7909$08d7f320$02ac14ac@mia.bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 16:41:16 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message