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Date:      Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:05:52 +0200
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Subject:   Re: "no matching session" in ng_pppoe.c 1.74.2.4? (RELENG_6)
Message-ID:  <475C58B0.3010800@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071209215808.68c22b2c@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>
References:  <20071206030500.746c782d@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>	<4757E39C.8020009@FreeBSD.org>	<20071206161107.3c0c9a82@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>	<20071209173359.710ea5bd@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>	<475C3E49.6000906@elischer.org> <20071209215808.68c22b2c@epia-2.farid-hajji.net>

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cpghost wrote:
> If I remember correctly, sending two PADIs in quick succession
> was ppp's "normal" behaviour for *years* now (is it expected or
> required by the protocol? I don't know). I've always wondered
> why it was so. But that didn't cause any harm as it seemed one
> of the two PADO was picked up and eventually turned into a session.

It is not required by protocol as I remember. ppp does not sends PADI 
itselt, it is done by ng_ppp node. And it retransmits packets with 
increasing time-out starting from 2 seconds. If you see many packets 
check their Host-Uniq values.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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