Help! - ppp zombies
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Hello world,
Of late I'm getting spurious ppp entries shown by ifconfig. It happens
when a modem goes down. It might have been ppp3 but it comes up again as
pppx, where x is the next unused number and ppp3 becomes a zombie. Right
now I have two "zombies", shown here with a valid entry in the middle.
ppp1 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:28980 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27862 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:5
ppp2 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:203.91.66.225 P-t-P:203.91.65.14
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15182 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9526 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:5
ppp3 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP SLAVE MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2991 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8593 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:5
I have:-
changed kernels (2.2.17 -> 2.2.18)
upgraded ppp (v2.3 -> v2.4)
but the problem persists.
As a result I often get a significant percentage of lost packets -
sometimes over 50%.
As you can see, I am using eql here but it has worked perfectly for years
and has not been fiddled with.
The only way I have found of putting things right is a reboot. I am at a
complete loss as to how to tackle this one.
Anyone?
Lindsay
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Lindsay Allen <allen@cleo.murdoch.edu.au> Perth, Western Australia
voice +61 8 9316 2486, 0403 272 564 32.0125S 115.8445E Debian Linux
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