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From: kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: What is the PPP patch for NetBSD??????
Date: 2 Mar 1995 20:37:57 -0500
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Connection Machine Facility
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In article <3j39ea$kro@babbage.esu.edu>, Daniel Garcia <kender@esu.edu> wrote:
>Slaving away in a dark room, curriek@Cognos.COM (Kevin Currie) produced:
>>: D
>>
>>	What is the problem?  I haven't heard about any such bug, I'm running
>>PPP on NetBSD-Amiga and have had no problems....
>>	Could you tell me how this bug manifests itself?
>>
>>
>
>Basically, if I kill ppp (or it dies), and i restart it, NetBSD crashses.  
>I guess I should have mentione,d it's NetBSD for the intel.

I run ppp all the time under NetBSD/i386, and start and stop it many times -
I've never seen a crash that was caused by this (I've seen very few crashes,
period).  This is under NetBSD 1.0.

--Ken