Re: Kernel PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

[Matthew Fredrickson]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +0000, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+0000), Matthew Fredrickson wrote:
> > I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one
> > other source.  Somewhere between (I can't remember exactly which kernel my
> > server started on) ~2.2.14(or 15) and 2.2.18 my ppp connection
> > periodically hangs and I have to restart the connection.  My situation is
> [snip]
> 
> Ditto.  Using evil winmodem here and Debian (ppp-2.4.0f-1).  2.2.19pre3 at
> the moment but it's been happening for a while.  Things seemed better when I
> turned on default-asyncmap, however it still occasionally goes belly up
> (almost _always_ when scping files out (uploading Debian packages)).  Last
> time I checked it also happend with my 28.8k USB modem (a normal modem, that
> one).
> 
> I've found a magic fix and when I've got time I'll try and burrow though the
> pppd source to try and find out why.  The magic fix? Turn on recording in
> pppd (i.e. add "record /tmp/foo"  to /etc/ppp/options).  I'd be interested
> if it fixes it for you.

I'm not positive, but so far, it looks like that fixed the problem.  I
don't know what would cause it to break like that, but I think I'm going
to go hunt around changelogs to see if there are any major changes in that
kernel version range.

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