On Jan 12,  8:52am, greywolf@starwolf.com (Missing - presumed fed.) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: pppd yet again.

| Ah, someone _is_ listening.  I don't know, and I don't have an i386
| on which to test this, so it might be sparc-specific, for which I apologise.
| Can anyone reproduce this problem?  I've sent diagnostic and extensive
| debugging output and nobody seems able to help me.  This is with 
| current AND ALIGNED kernel and userland.  I have to keep running a slightly
| older kernel in which, alas, I was Stoopid [TM] and didn't compile in
| PPP compression!  And now, because of this annoying problem, _I CAN'T_
| compile in ppp compression!

I wish I had a sparc around I could test with, but I am in London today
and tomorrow, and in New York on Friday, and the only sparc/netbsd available
for testing is in Frankfurt. I'll be in Frankfurt the Monday after, so
I'll be able to plug in a modem and test.

| Pardon my whinging please, but this is starting to become a serious
| handicap -- PPP is my _only_ network connection right now.
| 
| [mail bounces after a week, so I can't forge onward.  Nothing in the
| kernel indicates that the other end is even acknowledging the data.
| The problem is that this wasn't happening with a November 1998 kernel;
| just December98/January99]
| 

It looks probably something that has to do with the zs driver... Sorry
I cannot be of more help, but can't you downgrade until I can take a
look at it?

christos