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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:979 comp.os.386bsd.questions:3314 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!dubhe.anu.edu.au!sirius.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au (Paul Mackerras) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: PPP1.2 + 386bsd = crash !!!! Date: 28 Jun 1993 10:46:21 +1000 Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia Lines: 23 Message-ID: <20lf0tINNdmr@sirius.anu.edu.au> References: <20lcvh$fo6@manuel.anu.edu.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.anu.edu.au mbl900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Mathew BM LIM) writes: >I start up PPP using the default settings shipped with the PPP1.2 examples. >telnet, ping, ftp etc. work fine. Then after 2 - 5 minutes, >the system reboots without warning or any error messages. >I saw someone post a similar question earlier but there was no answer. If >there is one - please let me in on the secret. The ppp network interface driver for 386bsd in the ppp-1.2 distribution is buggy. I have done a considerable amount of debugging on it, and I have a version which seems quite stable now. I have sent the code to Brad Parker, who as I understand it, is going to integrate it into his ppp-1.4 release. In the meanwhile, if people are having difficulty using ppp-1.2 on 386bsd, you can get my fixes by anonymous FTP from dcssoft.anu.edu.au, file pub/paulus/ppp-1.2-fixes.tar.Z. Unpack this file in your /sys/net directory (it contains new versions of if_ppp.c, if_ppp.h, slcompress.c and slcompress.h) and recompile your kernel. Let me know if you find any problems with it. Paul Mackerras paulus@cs.anu.edu.au Dept. Computer Science Australian National University