Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Jan 1999 23:50:46 +0100 (CET) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: Random PPP Dropouts |
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On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Mike. > > >>> I am running kernel 2.2.0-pre4, with pppd 2.3.5, I use a dial on > >>> demand system for accessing the internet `pon provider' and I get > >>> disconnected from my ISP after about 1 hour of connection. If I > >>> quickly re-connect it doesn't happen again, but it is costing me > >>> phone calls so I thought I'd report it. > > >> I could reproduce this problem with ISDN and ipppd. When the > >> connection seems to be blocked on the second dial, then there is a > >> duplicate entry in the routing table: > > >> {harri@bilbo:harri 1} netstat -nr > >> Kernel IP routing table > >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface > >> 146.225.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ippp0 > >> 146.225.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ippp0 > > > This was driving me nuts. It appeared with pre1, and I reversed > > just about the entire patch piece by piece until just about the > > only thing left was drivers and the makefile version changes. You > > guessed it...the makefile changes. I haven't figured out why yet, > > but I now have a pre1 with everything except that, and the annoying > > route and demand dial problems are gone. 'Course it has an identity > > crisis, (it thinks it's 2.1.132) but it works. > > That had me wondering if it was due to the new KERNELRELEASE makefile > variable not being defined somewhere, so I grep'd the entire Makefile > tree to see if there were any remaining places where it might belong. > > As it turns out, there are three occasions where EXTRAVERSION isn't > used, although in each case, I'm not sure whether it should be, but > here's the details anyway, this relating to 2.2.0-pre4-ac4 if that > helps, all paths relative to /usr/src/linux or wherever you unpacked > the source... > > 1. Makefile line 285 > 2. arch/arm/boot/Makefile line 23 > 3. arch/arm/boot/Makefile line 23 > > Comments?
I think it's just a case of userland daemon not being maximum flexible wrt version parsing. May be other apps out there that are pickey too.
-Mike
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