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Subject: Re: Ordinary ppp dialing to provider woes 
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> > I've seen this in my test environment recently.  I can't fathom
> > what's going on here.  The only thing that's changed recently
> > here is that ppp now uses proper random numbers (I have several
> > "entrophy" IRQs set up) to generate the magic number.  It doesn't
> > fail always - sometimes things are ok (~30% of the time).  This
> > is over a direct serial link from a -current box to a RELENG_2_2
> > box.  My ISP connection from the -current box has *never* seen
> > this problem.
> 
> Eeeh... since no one reacted to my mail onquestions about ppp on 2.2.2, maybe
> this gets close. You are connecting TO a 2.2.2 machine? I can't get that
> to work either with a config that worked before.
> 
> It (ppp on the 2.2.2 side) falls down with an error about an
> inappropriate ioctl, according to ktrace (TIOCMGET on a modem, when I'm
> using stdin and stdout...)

I think this was fixed a few days after 2.2.2-RELEASE.

> Mark

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