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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ppp crashes my FBSD 2.0
Date: 6 Feb 1995 03:11:53 -0000
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Gil Amit (amitgil@techunix.technion.ac.il) wrote:
:  hi,

:   After playing a little on the net with pppd, my system crashes.

:   Are there known fixes ?

Yep,

*** if_ppp.c.orig       Tue Nov 22 07:38:43 1994
--- if_ppp.c    Tue Nov 22 07:39:17 1994
***************
*** 432,437 ****
--- 432,438 ----
            m_freem(m0);
            return (ENOBUFS);
        }
+       m->m_len = 0;
        if (uio->uio_resid >= MCLBYTES / 2)
            MCLGET(m, M_DONTWAIT);
        len = M_TRAILINGSPACE(m);



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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....