ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4094) packets dropped, disabling node

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 09:51:09PM +0200, Sami Halabi wrote:
S> Hi,
S> 
S> I've searched the net andfound basicly 2 threads talking about the message:
S> 
S> ng_mppc_decompress: too many (4094) packets dropped, disabling node
S> 
S> in FBSD 6.3
S> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2008-April/030183.html its
S> a pr 123045
S> and 5.4. http://markmail.org/message/lptpp4qmiwksazxc
S> basicly suggested to set define MPPE_MAX_REKEY to a higher values
S> and found somewhere a patch that changes it to variable rather than using
S> it as macro
S> 
S> i saw no answer indicating this really solves the problem.
S> 
S> did anyone have a solution tothe problem? i'm suffering from it even i have
S> about 200 concurrent connections, as i read MPD+FREEBSD usually can utilize
S> thousands of sessions.

A couple of questions:

1) Is the number always 4094?
2) Have you tried to disable this code, thus never disable node? How
this performs? A patch for this is avaliable in
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=123045&cat=

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