Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:46:53 +0100 (CET) From: Paul Herman <pherman@piro.net> To: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@muc.de> Cc: Christoph Splittgerber <cs@sdata.de>, FreeBSD-ISDN@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Auth Problems Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912151234200.15214-100000@xhost.piro.net> In-Reply-To: <199912151108.MAA44511@peedub.muc.de>
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Hi all, On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > Paul Herman writes: > >Hi Christoph, > > > >On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Christoph Splittgerber wrote: > >> now I have problems with a WIN95-box dialling in via PPP. This used to run > >> without any problems! > >> [...snip!...] > > > >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. I woulnd't try this patch, because this also changes all other PPP state machines, (not just LCP, but IPCP as well!). I spoke with Marc about a month ago and we both agreed that this bug isn't on the sppp level, but most likely is some where else: 0.71 doesn't have this problem and there hasn't been any significant changes to the sppp code since then. We also agreed that this bug *needs* to be fixed, but no one seems to be actively persuing it. > 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. I just settled into my new job last week, and I'm finaly buying a used PC for home in a few weeks, and then I will try to dive into the layers code (eewwww) and see what there is to see. I have no clue about layers 1-3 so this _will_ take time. -Paul. ---------------------------------------------------- PIRONET AG Paul Herman - Consultant - SBU Providing Im Mediapark 5 - 50670 Cologne - Germany Tel.: +49 (0)221 454 3832 - Fax: +49 (0)221 454 3810 mailto:pherman@piro.net - http://www.piro.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isdn" in the body of the message
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