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Date:      Thu, 26 Jun 2003 20:40:37 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Doug Lee <dgl@dlee.org>
Cc:        Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
Subject:   Re: Possible Solution (Re: mpd VPN won't work after upgrade from4.6-STABLE to 4.8-STABLE)
Message-ID:  <200306270140.h5R1ecCk009051@arch20m.dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030627013054.GA42511@kirk.dlee.org>

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Doug Lee wrote:
> Re: the "protocol reject" errors; I left the original messages below
> this for reference, but I'm not so much following directly onto
> them...
> 
> Archie, I'm mildly embarrassed.  I just now found something you wrote
> in November of last year advising the following patch to fix exactly
> this problem.  I am running two 4.8-STABLE boxen, and it is not part
> of /sys/netgraph/ng_ppp.c in CVS yet, apparently...
> 
> --- sys/netgraph/ng_ppp.c.orig  Thu Nov 21 12:39:06 2002
> +++ sys/netgraph/ng_ppp.c       Thu Nov 21 12:39:26 2002
> @@ -744,7 +744,7 @@
>         case HOOK_INDEX_VJC_VJIP:
>                 if (priv->conf.enableCompression
>                     && priv->hooks[HOOK_INDEX_COMPRESS] != NULL) {
> -                       if ((m = ng_ppp_addproto(m, proto, 1)) == NULL) {
> +                       if ((m = ng_ppp_addproto(m, proto, 0)) == NULL) {
>                                 NG_FREE_META(meta);
>                                 return (ENOBUFS);
>                         }
> I patched ng_ppp.c, but I don't know if I can rebuild netgraph without
> a make world, which takes a good 12 hours on this P166... advice on
> that welcome.

All you need to do is rebuild/reinstall your kernel+modules.

> Should one of us submit a PR for this, or did I miss something?

This is (arguably) a bug in whatever is running on the other side
of your link (it's not FreeBSD, right?). So that's why it was never
checked in (because it's a workaround that costs an extra byte in
every packet). However, you could argue that it should be I guess...

-Archie

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