Re: [pptp-devel] Connection breaks and is not restored

[Rein K. <rk...@xs...>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:30:30 +0200, you wrote:

> Sep 19 04:21:14 azenomei pppd[5084]: No response to 3 echo-requests
> Sep 19 04:21:14 azenomei pppd[5084]: Serial link appears to be disconnected.
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pppd[5084]: Connection terminated.
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pppd[5084]: Connect time 248.2 minutes.
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pppd[5084]: Sent 1233593 bytes, received 21379108 bytes.
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pptp[5086]: log[decaps_hdlc:pptp_gre.c:129]: short read(0): Invalid argument
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pppd[5084]: Using interface ppp0
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pptp[5088]: log[callmgr_main:pptp_callmgr.c:240]: Closing connection
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pptp[5088]: log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.c:285]: Closing PPTP connection
> Sep 19 04:21:20 azenomei pppd[5084]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyp2
> Sep 19 04:21:22 azenomei pptp[5088]: log[call_callback:pptp_callmgr.c:88]: Closing connection
> 
> Note the last time, no "log[pptp_conn_close:pptp_ctrl.c:285]:Closing
> PPTP connection" that follows. pptp does not exit. And pppd does not retry
> because of that, I presume. I have seen earlier instances of this, where
> the connection was not restored with exactly the same sequence of log
> entries. Anybody have an idea?

I don't agree: lines 7 and 10 of the log show that pppd is attempting
to build a new connection. It doesn't work because the control manager
has not exited yes.

Are you using version 1.7 of pptp.c? My change on Aug 6, was put in
exactly to avoid this problem.

Rein.
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