From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 13:02:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from home.dv.ru (home.dv.ru [195.98.33.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02296; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 13:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dv@dv.ru) Received: from localhost (dv@localhost) by home.dv.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id AAA00661; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00:01 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from dv@dv.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: home.dv.ru: dv owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 00:00:00 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Valdov To: Brian Somers cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just tried to put "delete! default" in ppp.conf file and it has no effect. ppp hangs when default route exists. On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Dmitry Valdov wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 21:40:53 +0000 > From: Brian Somers > To: Jason Fesler > Cc: Kris Kennaway , > Dmitry Valdov , Brian Somers , > current@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c > > > > Sorry for the "implicit bug report", Brian, but I've been meaning to track > > > this down for a long time and make sure it's not user error. I often see this > > > > I've had this since the 2.2.2 days when I first started running ppp. > > After a while (hours, days, weeks - random) either carrier isn't noticed > > as being missing, or all outgoing packets don't cross the serial cable to > > to the other side. After a while I kinda gave up. > > Ppp won't expect carrier if it's not detected when ppp starts doing > LCP. This allows null-modem cables without the correct wiring to > work. > > As I've said to a couple of these posts - enable debug logging and > you'll see the carrier status reported every second. You can also > ``show modem'' to see what things look like. > > > I now every few minutes fping a few hosts on the nearby remote side. If > > they _all_ fail (a good 10 second timeout is given) then I kill -9 the ppp > > session, wait 2 seconds, then restart ppp. It's caught every strange > > random bug on either side soon enough that I no longer have to try and > > call home and walk the wife through ppp.. > > Ppp should be a lot more reliable these days. > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message