From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263007AbTJYVgV (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:36:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263036AbTJYVgU (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:36:20 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:12442 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263007AbTJYVgT (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:36:19 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: 2.6.0-testX and pppd/pppoe stuck after connecting Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 23:36:15 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2523214.1067115416222.JavaMail.jpl@remotejava> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: Jan Ploski User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ffRKzP966dPFpcfHNsN3wR2eHyk= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Ploski writes: > Ever since I upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.6.0-test? (now -test8), > I have been encountering problems with my pppd/pppoe setup. > Specifically, right after the ppp0 interface is brought up, and several > packets go through that interface (4-5 packets RX/TX), no more packets > are transmitted until I restart pppd and reconnect to my ISP. > ping www.google.com will report 100% packet loss, and I cannot see the > TX packet count on ppp0 increasing. Nothing suspicious appears in ppp.log. > More often than not, I have to reconnect multiple times until at last > a working connection is established. > > I may have not included all required information, but I don't know what > might be useful in diagnosing this problem (this knowledge would possibly > let me correct it without posting). I believe it is kernel-related because > with 2.4.x everything works fine in the same circumstances. The software > versions are: pppd version 2.4.1, pppoe version 3.3 (from roaringpenguin.com) FWIW, I'm sending this mail using pppd 2.4.1 and Roaring Penguin pppoe 3.5 on Linux 2.6.0-test8. Occasionally, maybe one out of 10 times or less, the connect times out, but I've attributed that to my ISP. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se