Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reported | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:38:47 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 12:16 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as > used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of > data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530. > I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the > actual cause.
I was terribly afflicted by this bug and the patch seems to help.
Strangely, it made PPTP completely unusable with the -rt kernel - the connection would hang forever - but with 2.6.16 it only seemed to slow things down.
Lee
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