Re: 2.1.130 and pppd

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998, Tristan Colgate wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Konrad Podloucky wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On 11-Dec-98 Tristan Colgate wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   I have been getting a kernel panic when establishing ppp connection on
> > > 2.1.130, 2.1.129 works just fine though. it complains about something to

YES.  There IS a fatal bug in the 2.1 kernel with networking.  I have
observed several Kernel panics, all from skput:over.  All but one were
dev:ppp0 (the oddball was eth0).  The address is consistant across each
panic (even the oddball for eth0) so this should not be hard to find.
Without a -g compiled kernel, the closest I could see was
rcv_proto_vjc_uncomp.  However, I am rebuilding a 2.1.131 with -g and will
try to nail this bastard tonight.  It's already caused me major grief and
some filesystem damage.

Please keep the linux-kernel people aware of this, or it might not get
fixed for a long time.

-bp
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