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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help: ppp cause crash
Date: 28 Aug 1995 11:34:42 +0200
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Kai Yu <kyu@hippos.ecs.umass.edu> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me what happened on my system?
>I have Pentium 66 with 8mbyte memory running FreeBSD 2.0.
>I enabled its 'ppp' function.
...
>if I do something shch as 'more file' on the terminal or the opened
>'xterm', my system will crash after 5 seconds.
> Can anyone tell what to do to fix it?
Best is to upgrade to 2.0.5.
The ppp code in 2.0 was known to be broken and thus disabled. There
used to be a fix for the most annoying problem (an uninitialized
variable), perhaps you'll have to dig through some archive for it. It
has been posted several times here.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)