>>I use small machine (P60) under linux-2.1 as a small dial-in modem
>>pool. Under 2.1.88 ppp works fine, but under 2.1.115-2.1.119 the
>>first users conection after reboot is OK, but after day of work
>>pppd don't sent LCP requests. I run pppd under strace and see
>>that syscall write() with LCP packet works OK, but no one byte
>>sent to modem. After reboot all again works correct for a some time.
> I have the same problem with kernel 2.1.122 ;((
>>
>> Stanislav Voronyi.
> Did you solve that problem? Have you any idea about cause?
This is a small patch to fix this problem:
------------------------------------------------------------------
--- ppp.c.orig Mon Sep 28 11:02:28 1998
+++ ppp.c Fri Sep 25 20:52:07 1998
@@ -1289,6 +1289,9 @@
CHECK_PPP_MAGIC(ppp);
+ /* ppp_dev_close may be called with tbusy==1 so we must set it to 0 */
+ dev->tbusy=0;
+
MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT;
return 0;
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Pls add tihis line ti official kernel.
SY, Stanislav Voronyi.
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