Re: recent dhcpcd looping on ppp0

[Frank Kardel <kardel%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Much better now.

The busy wait loop is now gone.

Thanks !

Frank

On 09/29/14 14:03, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 2014-09-29 11:33, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > > > Going to guess that ppp0 doesn't have a carrier status OR 
> > > > > IFF_RUNNING set?
> > > > > The attached patch should reduce the log spam, let me know how it 
> > > > > works out.
> > > > Errm, this patch should do better!
> > > Well, less spam, but still
> > >     - busy wait (repeated count goes up to ~300k)
> > > Sep 28 23:50:05 Andromeda dhcpcd[1101]: ppp0: unknown carrier
> > > Sep 28 23:50:05 Andromeda dhcpcd[1101]: ppp0: carrier_status:
> > > Inappropriate ioctl for device
> > > Sep 28 23:50:14 Andromeda syslogd[1251]: last message repeated 12776 
> > > times
> > >
> > >     - a flurry of routing messages (probably same number of as 
> > > syslog entries)
> > > got message of size 152 on Sun Sep 28 23:50:10 2014
> > > RTM_IFINFO: iface status change: len 152, if# 6, carrier: unknown,
> > > flags: <UP,PTP,MULTICAST>
> > > got message of size 152 on Sun Sep 28 23:50:10 2014
> >
> > Yes, these messages are being triggerd by a flurry of routing messages.
> > This is probably a bug in NetBSD somewhere and the attached patch
> > should pretty much silence the warnings down to one n dhcpcd until the
> > link actually comes up.
>
> So the flurry of messages is triggered by dhcpcd still (thanks 
> jmcneill!).
> This patch should fix it and all should now be well.
>
> Roy