Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:03:15 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> To: faried nawaz <fn@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> Cc: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tun0/user ppp lockups? Message-ID: <199703202103.VAA20824@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Mar 1997 08:23:55 PST." <19970320082355.57030@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
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Does a manual SIGSEGV kill it ? If so, can you tell me what the
stack trace looks like ? Also, is this on a direct connection
(null-modem) or through a modem ?
> Jason Fesler says in <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970320065126.182A-100000@heaven.gigo.com>:
>
> > Here's a strange one: After 1-3 days of being up, all traffic across
> > tun0 dies. I can still use the ethernet; I can not however reset the
> > PPP connection, nor can I telnet to the PPP port at 3000, or talk to the
> > outside world.
> >
> > Anyone know of any problems with user ppp or with tun0? User PPP worked
> > too easily other than this lockup problem, to want to try kernel PPP ;-)
>
> on 2.2-gamma dated ~ feb 27, i see this problem every day, perhaps 1-2
> times. it's very annoying. ppp stops responding and starts chewing cpu.
> i end up killing ppp (w/ -9), doing ifconfig tun0 delete, route delete
> default, and dialing in again.
>
> my main reason for using ppp is the packet aliasing -- i need that.
>
> blah,
>
> faried.
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