Subject: Re: ppp connection strangeness...
To: Phil Knaack <flipk@idea.exnet.iastate.edu>
From: Bill Squier <groo@guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 03/03/1997 10:25:22
> >> 2.  If I'm doing a fairly large download to either a mac or a windoze PC,
> >> which is connected to the 3/60 over ethernet, the network feed (which I'm
> >> watching as modem LED's) will abruptly stop transferring data, and hang for
> >> several minutes.  However, if I hit return in an rlogin to a machine on the
> >> other end of the link, everything recovers for a while, running anywhere
> >> from three seconds to a minute, and then hangs again.
> 
> >I don't see that.  Sounds like a bug in the serial driver; maybe the receive
> >interrupt clears out some broken state in the transmit path allowing it to
> >recover?
> 
> 	I have seen this, but it was I think over a year ago.  I've not
> seen anything like this since.  I never knew the cause..

Were the ppp sources based on ppp-2.2 at that point?  I have a ppp-2.2 Solaris box which exhibits exactly these symptoms.  Fairly frustrating.

Anyone know the stability of ppp-2.3b3?

-- 
Bill Squier (groo@cs.stevens-tech.edu)
http://www.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~groo