Re: PPP works! (sorta)
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:33:42PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 10:35:35AM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > > Only problem is that it hangs a lot, especially when doing a
> > > large transfer.
> >
> > I saw the exact same behavior over the serial line. I few the problem
> > is that ppp pushes select harder than any other application in the Hurd.
> > Which is to say: this is now a Hurd problem and not a ppp problem. I
> > found that hitting enter on the ppp command prompt sometimes woke the
> > program up.
>
>
> I do hope you have a later pfinet than this:
>
> 2001-06-08 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@gnu.org>
>
> * timer-emul.c (add_timer): Don't add jiffies to EXPIRES, it is
> the responsibility of the caller to do this.
>
> Well, as Neal had to patch pfinet anyway, I assume you do. But this is the
> first thing to check, as the symptom sounds exactly the same.
Well I update the hurd and everything to the latest deb. This has all fixes in
it doesn't it? If not please let me know. No use in using some old buggy code
that has fixes for it.
Dan
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