Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jun 2003 08:37:25 -0700 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [BUG]: problem when shutting down ppp connection since 2.5.70 |
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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:02:42 -0400 Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> wrote:
> Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > Is this the user-mode pppoe or the in-kernel pppoe? IOW, are you > > using the pppoe channel type, or do you have the usermode program that > > runs pppd behind a pty? > > I believe its the Roaring Penguin usermode one. I'm fairly sure PPPOE > isn't enabled in the kernel. I'm at work now, so it'll have to wait > till this evening to make sure. > > > And, do you have any TCP connections open over the link when you take > > it down? > > On at least some of the occasions there should have been no connections > open as the machine had just booted and the first thing I did after X > came up was to shutdown adsl. > > > What version of pppd is it? > > Not sure--will check later. Pretty sure its Mandrake 9 default. > > > Has anyone been able to replicate this without using pppoe? The type > > of channel shouldn't make any difference, but I just tried ppp over a > > pty and it worked fine (except that Deflate is broken, but that's > > another problem). > > Note that I can only reliably reproduce it if the dsl connection is > brought up at init time. If I don't bring it up automatically at init > but manually bring it up later, the problem doesn't seem to occur. > > Chris
PPP did have problems keeping track of the tty until the latest round if fixes (2.5.73+). The ppp_async module wasn't using owner fields as reqired.
Also, see if bringing down the ppp connection with ifconfig before attempting the rmmod helps. i.e. ifconfig ppp0 down - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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