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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 95 18:55:02 -0800
From:      grady@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   more on problems with PPP
Message-ID:  <199511160255.SAA00213@scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU>

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I sent a question a couple weeks ago about hangs I was getting from
PPP (iijppp v. 0.94 under FreeBSD 2.0.5).  I got one response which
suggested turning off timeouts.  It may do the trick -- I haven't
had too much time to check it out.  But I have found something else.
When running over an ISDN "modem", ppp is going into a tight loop after
a few minutes, preventing any further packets from getting through.
I am going to try to debug it tonight, but I'd be interested in knowing
if anyone else has seen this and dealt with it.

The fact that it is happening only over an ISDN modem, and not over a
28.8k modem, suggests that either a) it is an incompatibility with the
box on the other side (an Ascend box, but apparently no one else has
complained about this), or b) there is a PPP bug that manifests itself
due to timing issues.  Both would be surprising.

Unfortunately, there is a business resting on getting this stuff working,
so this is pretty high priority for me.

	Steven



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