As a test, configure a win95 dial up machine to use encrypted passwords and
dial in to see if you experience your lockup. I think you probably will and
you'll want to upgrade to pppd 2.3.4 to fix it.
-----Original Message-----
From: David Zanetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 1998 10:00 PM
Subject: Further info on pppd lockups
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>I've posted before about some problems with pppd lockups. The lockups are
>occuring _before_ any LCP layer negotiation, but after mgetty has worked
>out it is an incomming ppp connection.
>
>The logs report:
>
>Apr 28 15:45:46 goblin pppd[848]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
>Apr 28 15:45:46 goblin pppd[848]: Using interface ppp7
>Apr 28 15:45:46 goblin pppd[848]: Connect: ppp7 <--> /dev/ttyD0
>Apr 28 15:46:18 goblin pppd[848]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
>
>The pppd process recieves the hangup notification, but doesn't exit. It's
>not killable with -15 either, it has to be killed with -9. It's as if the
>other end is dropping the connection and pppd is stuck unable to deal with
>the dropped link.. LCP timeouts do not appear to work, so I'd presume the
>LCP layer isn't up properly..
>
>Any advice? We've not heard a thing from any customers about not being
>able to get on for a month, which concerns me a fair bit :|
>
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