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From: alexk@swdev.research.otc.com.au (Alex Kowalenko)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: PPP crash and burn.
Date: 21 May 1993 02:00:01 GMT
Organization: Technical Development Group, Telstra International
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1thd31$gbj@turin.research.otc.com.au>
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Keywords: PPP, 386bsd 0.1 + 0.2.3

I've installled the PPP code for 386bsd and suns from ppp-1.2.tar.z and compiled 
it with the patchkit 0.2.3, into the kernel and installed into the kernel on the sun
at work.

I startup a connection with chat and have logged into the machine at work and started
pppd there.  I have a ip connection which I can ping the sun at work, I can 
perform a rsh command.  I have started xlogo at work and directed it to display 
on the machine here at home and it worked.

Problems: 

ftp - I can connect to the work machine but when I attempt to perfrom a ls, it comes
back with "can't bind address".

When I telnet to the work machine, I login and execute my first command which
happened to be ls, and the kernel crashes.  I couldn't see the console message, I was
running a X server at the time.

Once I started up ppp without the X-server, without X and I saw a series 
of messages of the type, repeated a number of times

	missing UI, got(0x83)
	ppp: to short 1,

Generally the link didn't stay-up for more than an coupple of minutes.  

Is it a problem within the ppp routines in the kernel, 
or perhaps something is not setup correctly.

So close, yet so far ....

Alex