ppp trouble with 5.3-stable

[Rob B]

At 10:13 AM 23/12/2004, Frank J. Beckmann wrote:
>Moin,
>
>am Sonntag, 21. November 2004 01:32 schrieb Frank J. Beckmann:
> > a few days ago a did an upgrade from something pre 5.3-rc7 to the latest
> > 5.3-stable. Since then I have only trouble with ppp. My computer is
> > connectet to the internet via pppoe (FreeNet in Germany). My provider
> > closes the connection once every 24 ours, but ppp now fails to redial.
>
>That problem is solved. I had to explicitly disaable eveery possible
>compression protocil, then it worked. The strange thing ist that it workt
>before withou disabling that protocols.


Has your ISP upgraded their routers to Cisco IOS 12.3?  I hit a similar bug 
in a ppp session on OpenBSD :/

cheers,
Rob

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