Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:46:30 +0100 From: Christoph Splittgerber <cs@sdata.de> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: Paul Herman <pherman@piro.net>, FreeBSD-ISDN@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Auth Problems Message-ID: <38577F96.F73CB611@sdata.de> References: <199912151108.MAA44511@peedub.muc.de>
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Gary Jennejohn wrote: > > Paul Herman writes: > >You've got the famous "Auth Loop" bug which about 3-4 people reported > >having (myself included). I could only connect about 50% of the time. > > > >Two solutions have been proposed: > > * Go back to 0.71 (the version on the 3.3 CD) > > * Use Brian Sommers ppp(8) (aka user-ppp) > > > > Try applying the patch which Marc van Woerkom posted on 19 Nov 1999. > You can find it in the mail archive at www.freebsd.org. The subject: > > Subject: Infinite loop (sppp/lcp) > > I've seen a report that this doesn't necessarily work, but it's worth > a try. 0.71 is not an option here, because I had other problems (non PPP related) with 0.71 which all vanished when I overinstalled 0.82. I think before I patch the sources, I will give user-ppp a try. > I know of no-one who is actively trying to fix this, if Marc's patch does > not do the trick. None of the developers see this bug, and therefore > cannot do much about it. If it would be of any help, I can provide a login on the host (ppp-dialin or ssh-login via the internet). However, the host is *not* an experimental system because it runs several WWW and FTP servers and acts as a gateway to 3 subnets - so, we can't use it as hack-and-try-system. However, if I can do anything which helps developers track down the problem, let me know! Thanks, Christoph To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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