Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!doc.ic.ac.uk!kd
From: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kostis Dryllerakis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,citycs.list.freebsd.bugs,citycs.list.freebsd.hackers
Subject: Is PPP/route reboot bug fixed in 2.0.5R ?
Date: 13 Jun 95 10:48:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London
Lines: 40
Message-ID: <kd.803040505@crete>
NNTP-Posting-Host: crete.doc.ic.ac.uk
Keywords: PPP, bug
Hello,
A few months back I reported a bug on the PPP/routing
subsystem but I got no reply as to whether it was meant to be fixed or
not. Is this bug present in the 2.0.5R? I would very much like to know
if this is the case before I re-install everything on my machine!
It is practically impossible for me to work without PPP support.
Here is the original posting for the bug:
----------
I stumbled across the next interesting situation which causes a
soft reset to my machine. To reproduce it do the following
Boot without any network configuration (e.g. single user)
enter the commands:
ifconfig ppp0 inet 200.200.21.21 200.200.21.30 netmask 0xffffff00
route add default 200.200.21.1
and then
finger @200.200.2.1
(or any other command trying to get out of the router)
-----
The IP addresses ofcourse are NOT real and they only serve as an example.
Any ideas what is causing the problems and what the cure is?
As far as I can tell it was also present in the previous SNAP as well
as the latest one (FreeBSD 2.0.950412-SNAP).
I have also had resets at funny moments after disconnecting the
ppp service -but I doubt it if these are reproducible.
------------
Kostis
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
K J Dryllerakis Deparment of Computing
Logic Programming Group Imperial College, LONDON
Tel: +44(171)594 8216
http://www-lp.doc.ic.ac.uk/~kd/ Fax: +44(71)581 8024
Uucp : kd@icdoc.UUCP Internet: kd@doc.ic.ac.uk
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------