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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!gatech!concert!epa-rtp!bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov!fty From: fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov (Frank Terhaar-Yonkers) Subject: PPP is running but ... Message-ID: <1992Sep15.134137.24590@rtpnc.epa.gov> Keywords: ppp,bind,kernel Sender: usenet@rtpnc.epa.gov Nntp-Posting-Host: bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov Organization: United States Environmental Protection Agency Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 13:41:37 GMT Lines: 36 I seem to have a stable (connection stays up, system doesn't crash) ppp running which inter-operates with my SRARC2 running dp2.0.2. The biggest problem has been the good old "silo overflows". The only way I could get the problem to go away was installing the 16550 UART chip. Without it, TCP/IP would would lock up or perform so poorly as to be unusable. I still have problems with pppd and select. PPPD gets a signal to inform him a packet is available, but select returns ZERO (intermittent). I simply kludged around it by issuing a message and doing the read anyway. The code will abort if nothing is returned on the read, but so far this hasn't happened. The only "show stopping" problem so far is in my kernel (generic TCP/IP bogon). (I seem to have shot myself in the foot with some patch somewhere since I haven't heard anyone else complain.) Things like FTPD and NAMED are failing with EACCES trying to BIND privileged ports (Port 20 in the case of ftpd). Any ideas? I've been poking around down in so_bind trying to figure out who's setting errno and it looks like it might be namei. The hacks are available on sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:~/pub/386bsd/ppp-hacks See the READ.THIS and the READ* files in the tar file. Also an archive of "culled" news is there in:~/pub/386bsd/culled.news Caution, this is a snapshot of work in progress and should be considered alpha--. I'm posting this because I've had requests and could use a little help with the bind problem. - Frank -- ------------------------------------------------- Frank Terhaar-Yonkers fty@bizarre.rtpnc.epa.gov Unisys/U.S. EPA (919)541-2297