Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 18:21:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bret Ford <bford@uop.cs.uop.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: PPP issues Message-ID: <199709180121.SAA01555@uop.cs.uop.edu>
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Greetings,
I've been tracking FreeBSD-stable for a couple of weeks now, and
I've have two difficulties.
I have an 486DX/2 66mhz that I'm using as a gateway to the internet
for the machines at our house. An ISDN interface, running at 230K, is
connected to a Byterunner card with 2 16650 UARTS. Using user
PPP with -alias, 2 desktops and a portable over our little LAN
are sharing the ISDN adapter and generally, everything is great.
However, I'm getting periodic "silo overflow" messages. I notice them,
in particular, when I'm cvsup'ing the source tree. An initial patch of
2.2.2-RELEASE yielded a couple hundred such errors, but nothing fatal.
Am I missing a kernel parameter, or other change to the source tree,
that might resolve this problem?
The other problem I've had has occured only in FreeBSD-stable.
Under -release, I was able to do "ppp -alias provider >& /dev/null &"
to start a session. When trying that under -stable, I get a message
from ppp saying "exception detected." and no connection. Is this
a "feature" that has been corrected? This generally isn't a
problem, because the dumb terminal I use as a console from com1 on
the Byterunner generally isn't fiddled with while we're connected.
Thanks for any help ye can give.
(BTW, to the FreeBSD wizards in the dev. team: Kudos on a great OS!)
Bret Ford
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