On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 15:03:35 EDT, "Kristofer T. Karas" said:

> FWIW, this also affects PPP over an async serial line (in my case to a 
> 56Kb modem).  During cdparanoia runs, the modem Tx/Rx lights all but 
> stop as the missed packets drop retransmissions into the minute+ 
> timeframe.  (Oddly, I don't recall seeing framing errors from ifconfig; 
> must be the lower level ppp substrate or some such...)

I remember seeing this in the 2.5.6mumble kernel as well, it got fixed by
something around 2.5.70 or so.  I wish I could give a more specific release
number for it.