In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kevin Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|| Although things work, I do have some strange messages appearing in || /var/log/messages. Although things seem to be working okay, I think || they're probably something that should be looked into. Can you "shed any || light" on this? [Log cut] || So, I'm quite happy in that things are working; however, I feel I should be || concerned about the "PPP network layer died, but link did not. Probable || configuration error." messages and how the sequence repeats 3 or 4 || times.... I think you mentioned in another message that you were using diald 0.14-8. This looks suspiciouly like the bug in diald I posted a fix for (in linux.dev.diald). Here it is again. It's supposed to be fixed in diald 0.15, but I haven't looked yet. The bug's no problem if you don't use ip-up, I think, but if you do use ip-up, you had better apply the patch. Or upgrade to diald 0.15, last version. :-) Cheers. Vincent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ EFFECT The best noticeable effect of the bug is multiple spawns of the ip-up script, usually shortly after connection setup. CAUSE When diald receives a packet on the proxy device while PPP ought to be up, it suspects that PPP has gone down again. It checks this assumption by reading the output of "route -n". If this output indeed shows PPP to be down, diald waits for PPP to come back up. The bug causes diald to fail to detect the PPP interface in the "route -n" output. Hence, it assumes wrongly that PPP is down. When it later detects that PPP is up, it re-spawns the ip-up script, which is superfluous since PPP actually never was down. PATCH (what you've all been waiting for :-) This patch was made for the Debian source distribution of diald-0.14. --- ppp.c.orig Thu Apr 4 13:36:52 1996 +++ ppp.c Thu Sep 5 21:40:36 1996 @@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ int ppp_route_exists() } while (fgets(buf,128,fp)) { - if (sscanf(buf,"%*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s ppp%d",&device) == 8) { + if (sscanf(buf,"%*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s %*s ppp%d",&device) == 1) { if (device == link_iface) found = 1; } } -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]