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From: "Matthew D. Diez" <diez@intersurf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SLiRP and FreeBSD 2.0
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:54:57 -0600
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On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Eric Kennedy wrote:

> We are using SLiRP with FreeBSD 2.0.  Users connect via modem and start up 
> SLiRP from their login script.  When they are finished they just drop the 
> line. That is, they do not telnet back to the machine and type 00000 to exit 
> SliRP and then logout.  About 10-20% of the time after doing this the machine 
> reboots within the next 5 minutes without leaving any error messages in the 
> logfile.  Has anyone seen this before?  Any suggestions as to a cause or fix?
> 
> Thanks, EK
> 
> 

I have had similar problems in the past, but I could trace them to my
serial card.  What hardware are you running communications-wise? I have
run an ISP offa SLuRP for over a year now, without any major probs ('cept
upgrades to the OS always force me to recompile SLuRP).  Slirp prolly
can't reboot a box, but a faulty card (such as one of my Cyclades 8yo's)
can do it.

 Matthew Diez
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