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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2005 14:49:24 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uplcom / ucom problems on RELENG_5
Message-ID:  <20050330124923.GR33677@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.0.20050330071753.055388b8@64.7.153.2>
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 07:22:07AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 05:41 AM 30/03/2005, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >> putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks
> >>
> >> fill up the console.  At this point, ppp is totally hung, and I cannot 
> >kill
> >> ppp
> >
> >You need a way to notice a connection failure.
> >In case of modem or line failure you should see DCD loss.
> >Does your cabling release DCD, or do you use LQR in your configuration?
> >Have you compared the same configuration with a classical 16550 based
> >serial?
> 
> Hi,
>         PPP does see the loss, the problem is that its totally wedged and 
> cant do anything else.  In the case where there is not too much data going 
> across the serial line, the connection dropping has no adverse effect.  I 
> have LCP keep alives enbled and it does detect the link going away and does 
> properly redial.  However, it seems where there is too much outstanding 
> data things get into trouble.

That's possible - currently we can't control the transmit/receive
buffers inside the USB device.

> Like I said, at this point I cant even kill -9 ppp.

That fits - the device buffers even survive a reopen of the tty.

> What more information can I provide to help track this problem down ?

We need to implement complete flushing support for uplcom.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
bernd@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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