"David A. Bandel" wrote:
> So, it's something in the demand dialing portion of the ppp code. Not
> good. Means the system I wanted to upgrade (for netfilter), I can't.
Hi David,
having had the same problem i looked at the pppd code. The following
should
fix your problem. Its an ugly, probably not complete fix, but it works
for me:
clemens@banjo:/home/linux$ diff -u ppp-2.3.11/pppd/sys-linux.c
ppp-2.3.11-fixed/pppd/sys-linux.c
--- ppp-2.3.11/pppd/sys-linux.c Wed Dec 22 15:51:31 1999
+++ ppp-2.3.11-fixed/pppd/sys-linux.c Thu Apr 13 00:18:01 2000
@@ -852,7 +852,7 @@
len -= 2;
}
nr = read(ppp_fd, buf, len);
- if (new_style_driver && nr < 0 && (errno == EWOULDBLOCK || errno ==
EIO))
+ if (new_style_driver && nr < 0 && (errno == EWOULDBLOCK || errno ==
EIO ||ppp_fd==-1))
nr = read(ppp_dev_fd, buf, len);
if (nr < 0) {
if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK || errno == EIO)
Hope this helps,
Clemens
>
> Thanx,
>
> David A. Bandel
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