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Date:      Mon, 06 Sep 1999 19:28:40 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PPP exiting unexpectedly 
Message-ID:  <199909061828.TAA17859@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:23:26 BST." <19990906182326.A16696@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> 

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> Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > I think you'll need to tack
> > 
> >   CFLAGS+=-g
> >   STRIP=
> > 
> > to the end of the Makefile and get a trace :-/
> 
> OK, but it may well not happen again though, it was just a one off thing,
> it hasn't been happening repeatedly.
> 
> > The IPCP error is the result of the peer sending an IP packet before
> > authentication is complete (a ``set log physical debug'' may be
> > interesting here).
> 
> That seems odd, since this occured just as the connection was being
> closed. Perhaps I should have shown more of the log:
> 
> Sep  6 04:43:21 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: IPCP: myaddr 212.228.14.13 hisaddr = 158.152.1.222 
> Sep  6 04:48:00 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Phase: Connected to local client. 
> Sep  6 04:48:00 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: IPCP: deflink: LayerDown: 212.228.14.13 
> Sep  6 04:48:00 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: IPCP: deflink: SendTerminateReq(12) state = Opened 
> Sep  6 04:48:00 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: IPCP: deflink: State change Opened --> Closing 
> Sep  6 04:48:00 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Phase: /var/run/ppp: Client connection closed. 
> Sep  6 04:48:01 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Warning: ip_Input: IPCP not open - packet dropped 
> Sep  6 04:48:01 scientia ppp[16181]: tun0: Warning: nat_LayerPull: Problem with IP header length 

That is a bit suspicious :-/  I've eyeballed the code again and still 
can't see anything dodgy.  I've added the ``problem length'' to the 
diagnostic - if it happens again, this may help.

Let me know.

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Cheers.
-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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