Subject: Re: waiting for ppp0 to become free (Re: ppp0 out of control)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2005-01-26 at 20:31, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> Yep, 2.6.8.1 works fine, this issue appears on 2.6.9 and 2.6.10. I
> switched to a Debian 2.6.10 kernel for security reasons, and
> the issue has not come yet. I had a glance at the changelog and
> saw some network related patches. This is the -as patchset, see
> <http://kerneltrap.org/node/4545> about it.


2.6.9 changed the tty hangup code and this did introduce a problem with
serial ppp ignoring hangups. That was fixed in 2.6.9-ac and the fix is
in 2.6.10. If you are using serial ppp the 2.6.8 to 9 breakage is known
but the 2.6.10 case should be fine.

Alan

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