Re: PPP stalls return in 2.1.128 for me

Russ Mennie (russ@beer)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:48:18 -0800


> > > kernels. The only diagnostic I have is the RX errors field in the
> > > ifconfig report, which climbs quite rapidly (I am typing this email over a
> > > ppp link and have gotten 3 framing errors typing the message to this
> > > point!). All of the errors tally into the "frame" field in ifconfig.
> >
> > I have the exact same problem here. I'm running 2.1.129-ac1 with knfs1113 &
> > pppd v2.3.5
>
> Are you building the kernel with SMP disabled, and if the problem started
> recently do you have a 3c509 as your net card.

No to either question. However for reference; the unmaskrq option of hdparm
(hdparm -u /dev/yourdrive) seems to have cleared the problem up quiet
nicely.

Cheers!. . .Russ

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