Your message dated Sat, 7 Jan 2023 20:33:17 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#301148: ppp: pppd should interpret rejects to LCP
EchoReq as EchoRep
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regarding ppp: pppd should interpret rejects to LCP EchoReq as EchoRep
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Package: ppp
Version: 2.4.2+20040428-6
Severity: wishlist
This isn't a bug in pppd at all since it's doing things by the book.
However, it would be a very nice feature to have and is consistent
with the rule of "be liberal in what you accept". So please forward
this to Paul Mackerras and see if he can spare some cycles to code
this.
It appears that the majority of ISPs over GPRS run a PPP server that
does not support the LCP echo request. If you send them an echo
request you will be issued with a code reject.
You can find reports like this all over the net by searching for
"Code-Reject for code 9" on google.
On the face of it this is simply a defect in the ISPs' PPP server.
But it just happens that there is something very simple that we can
do to work around this problem.
As the remote PPP server always sends back a code reject for the
echo request, it's in fact as good as an echo reply since it indicates
that the peer is alive.
So what we can do is simply interpret this particular code reject as
an echo reply.
The advantage of this work-around is that we can communicate with these
servers without disabling LCP echoing. As it is if you want to get
online with these servers then you have to do so without the LCP echo
requests. This is a problem for those of us who need the link to
stay up all (or most) of the time.
Thanks,
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.1
Kernel Version: Linux gondolin 2.4.27-hx-1-686-smp #3 SMP Tue Oct 5 20:01:26
EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages ppp depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM library
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7 System interface for user-level packet captu
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7e-2 SSL shared libraries
ii makedev 2.3.1-75 Creates device files in /dev
ii netbase 4.20 Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii procps 3.2.1-2 The /proc file system utilities
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On Mar 24, [email protected] wrote:
> It appears that the majority of ISPs over GPRS run a PPP server that
> does not support the LCP echo request. If you send them an echo
> request you will be issued with a code reject.
Is this still an issue 18 years later?
If so, then please either:
- discuss this with the upstream maintainers, or
- send a patch
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ciao,
Marco
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