Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 09:31:47PM +0200, Dmitry Pryanishnikov wrote: Hello! On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Not that it contradicts anything you said, but it's worth re-emphasizing that there is apparently no-one in the community interested in maintaining pppd on FreeBSD, which

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
Hello! On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Not that it contradicts anything you said, but it's worth re-emphasizing that there is apparently no-one in the community interested in maintaining pppd on FreeBSD, which is how it got to the current sorry state. I agree that the absence of

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-18 Thread Dmitry Pryanishnikov
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=109277 The problem looks like a lack of proper locking during the operations with clist (specifically, this causes multiple entry to cblock_alloc()). I'm ready to provide further debugging information

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: There's information around PPP that's not been communicated or documented well. The 'performance' way to do PPP on FreeBSD is to go off and run MPD, because it has the right compromise between doing low-level packet shunting in the kernel,

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-11 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Sunday, 11. February 2007 02:43, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: So far so good. The problem is that the BSD magicians and the KDE GUI magicians are not sharing their spell-books, and thus, their models of how the code operates; the communities have to intersect somehow. That could be you, y'know.

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-10 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Michael Nottebrock wrote: And yes, if pppd is broken and won't be fixed, it should disappear. And when that happens, so will kppp (it won't build once the if_ppp.h header is gone). Which of course would solve the problem in a way. In any case: I dragged this issue onto -stable

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 8. February 2007 08:38, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Wednesday, 7. February 2007 18:45, Joe Vender wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2007 01:59, Michael Nottebrock wrote: ...

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-09 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Saturday, 10. February 2007 07:34, Ian Smith wrote: Since once trying (and failing) to debug or even comprehend a spaghetti of scripts and configs behind a dialout-only linux pppd setup some years ago, compared to the much more straightforward ppp with mgetty setup for both dialout and

Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD

2007-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:38:08PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Not to suggest that any pppd/kernel interaction problems ought not to be addressed by those wishing to maintain pppd for linux compatibility or other reasons, but the reality is that most FreeBSD users have long preferred user ppp for