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Date:      Wed, 29 Mar 2000 09:43:39 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Strange new ppp warnings 
Message-ID:  <200003290843.JAA00796@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>  of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:08:09 %2B0300." <38E1ABD9.11ED74EC@altavista.net> 

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> Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After upgrading my box to the 4.0-STABLE, I've discovered that ppp started
> > > produce regular warnings I've never seen before:
> > >
> > > Warning: nat_LayerPull: Dropped a packet....
> > >
> > > What does it mean and what implications may it have?
> >
> > This is pretty strange.  I've just added a diagnostic to
> > nat_LayerPull().  Can you update your sources (or get the latest
> > archive from my web site in about an hour) and tell me what return
> > value it's receiving ?
> 
> Ok, here it is using latest libalias and ppp from -current just compiled with
> safe -O optimisation.
> 
> Warning: nat_LayerPull: Dropped a packet (2)....

Ah, ok.  This is incoming data that's being ignored by ppp - maybe 
because you've got ``nat deny_incoming yes'' configured ?

I've added some more useful diagnostics, but you'll need to ``set log 
+tcp/ip'' to see them.

> -Maxim

Cheers.

-- 
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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