Bug 84528 – pppd hangs after several hundres link up/down cycles

Bug 84528 - pppd hangs after several hundres link up/down cycles

Summary:	pppd hangs after several hundres link up/down cycles

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ppp (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	high Severity high
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Assigned To:	Thomas Woerner
QA Contact:	Jay Turner
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Reported:	2003-02-18 09:49 EST by Larry Troan
Modified:	2016-04-18 05:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-10-07 10:00:25 EDT
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ppp debug file (209.37 KB, text/plain) 2003-11-25 14:42 EST, Joshua Giles	no flags	Details
/var/log/messages file (473.97 KB, text/plain) 2003-11-25 14:43 EST, Joshua Giles	no flags	Details
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Description Larry Troan 2003-02-18 09:49:39 EST

have found others in the community (via newsgroups) experiencing apparently
identical issue (see below for url).  persist option of pppd is being used to
allow the pppd process to linger after a link down event, and try to
automatically recover the link when the other end comes back.  after several
(hundreds) of ppp link up/down cycles, pppd is unable to recover when the other
end comes back -- messages are issued to syslog, as described in: 
--- http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.3/0305.html ---
kill the failing pppd process, start a new one, and ppp communications resume.
tried (latest) errata kernel (2.4.18-18.8), which exhibits the same results. 
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Action by: jgiles
Issue Registered

Comment 1 Larry Troan 2003-02-18 09:51:15 EST

ISSUE TRACKER 15897, opened by Dell as sev 2.

Comment 2 Joshua Giles 2003-11-25 14:41:28 EST

This issue is still a problem on RHEL 3.  I am attaching dmesg and 
ppp debug files.

Comment 3 Joshua Giles 2003-11-25 14:42:38 EST

Created attachment 96190 [details]
ppp debug file

Comment 4 Joshua Giles 2003-11-25 14:43:23 EST

Created attachment 96191 [details]
/var/log/messages file

Comment 5 Thomas Woerner 2004-08-17 05:27:32 EDT

Please have a look at

http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/3.0E/ppp-2.4.1-14.1.src.rpm
http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/RPMS/3.0E/ppp-2.4.1-14.1.i386.rpm

This test package might solve your problem.

Comment 6 Thomas Woerner 2004-10-07 10:00:25 EDT

Closed due to user inactivity.

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