Bug 243061

Summary:	PPTP (poptop.org) VPN connections hang under traffic
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	P P Anwar <anwarpp>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Martin Jenner <mjenner>
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Version:	4.4	CC:	jbaron
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Description P P Anwar 2007-06-07 04:40:01 UTC

Description of problem:
PPTPD VPN connections (www.poptop.org) hang under any significant traffic

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Please see the discussion at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530
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Actual results:
PPTP VPN connections hangs under traffic

Expected results:
PPTP VPN connections should NOT hang

Additional info:
The fix is the patch mentioned at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/11/132, please 
include it in the RHEL4 kernels.

Comment 1 P P Anwar 2007-06-07 08:10:36 UTC

Just realized that the fix from http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/11/132 may not 
apply exactly on the 2.6.9 series of kernels, so the fix from 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530 might be more appropriate for 
this version of the kernel.

Comment 2 Jiri Pallich 2012-06-20 16:17:37 UTC

Thank you for submitting this issue for consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The release for which you requested us to review is now End of Life. 
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