On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 12:46:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I was able to reproduce this oops with a somewhat more reliable ksymoops (I was 
>ready for this nasty bug this time).  Looks like the problem is in the sockets
> > code.
> 
> The traces so far all match one description , this one included. Its the
> 'something scribbled a while ago and I just walked the list and found it'
> 
> Is your ppp module getting loaded/unloaded a lot. Im wondering if we have

Humm.  The kernel ppp module is not getting unloaded.  I am using both the
pppd 2.3.11 and pppd-mppe 2.3.10 versions (pppd-mppe has CHAP-80 and MPPE
patched into the code).  The user space module does load and unload a lot 
due to all the testing we are doing.  

I took the CWorthy ncurses interface I wrote for the NWFS tools, and am 
using it to write a pppconfig utility that handles modem setup, inittab, 
mgetty, options.ttyX, etc. so setting up a dial-in server will be as 
easy with IPX and IP as it is in NT.  

I have also noticed that pppd is not "kicking" modprobe -v the way it 
probably should, and the ppp kernel modules have to be loaded and 
configured manually.

Jeff

> a module related race. That would explain why folks running large ppp dialin
> servers simply dont see any problems
> 
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