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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 15:43:11 -0600
From: Edwin Culp <eculp@ver1.telmex.net.mx>
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To: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net>
CC: Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PPP's unstable behavior (fwd)
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Dexnation Holodream wrote:
> 
> > Dexnation Holodream writes:
> >     has anyone else experienced odd/unstable/buggy behavior with ppp? or
> >     were there just some changes to it that would create bugs with old
> >     config files?
> >
> > What do you mean by "odd/unstable/buggy"?  There have been some changes
> > that may require you to modify config files, but so far, we have about
> > as much information as a doctor with a patient who says, "My arm hurts."
> >
> > Although, if you would like, you can take two aspirin and call me in the
> > morning....  (-:
> 
> hey doc...ummm...well...you see...I got this problem...my ppp is hosed.
> 
> ok...here are the bugs I've discovered:
> 
> dialin and login, and, manually do a add 0 0 HISADDR
> get disconnected, or manually disconnect
> try it again.
> 
> ppp gets angry when you try to add the route, says it's already
> there...and it is...the right one, too, except it refuses to route any
> packets.
> 
> bug #2:
> 
> get disconnected.  dialin again
> notice how sometimes you see a slew of # prompts and filenames scroll by
> at random.  notice that you're still at the login prompt (even though you
> can't see it) about 75% of the time, and you can log in, but the above bug
> is still present.  worse...notice that 25% of the time you're actually AT
> your root prompt.
> 
> maybe it's just on my machine, but I don't like the fact that it's
> happening...I'm going to look at my config, however, and change it to the
> new format.
> 
> -Jon
> 
I just cvsuped from about a month ago and supprise.
Looks like I've been bitten, too:-)  I guess it's time to re RTFM. 
Although it
seems strange.

ed

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