pppd handling of ms-wins

pppd handling of ms-wins

[Jiri Kosina]

Hi,

there are situations out there, in which pppd is not able to handle 
ms-wins negotiation with certain UMTS/HSDPA/.... modems properly. More can 
be seen on [1] and [2], including the discussion patch which fixes the 
issue.

I am ocasionally seeing the behavior myself, and looking at git tree of 
pppd it doesn't seem that the patch has been merged.

Was there any discussion about the patch being rejected, or has it just 
never been submitted properly to maintainers?

Thanks.

[1] http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org/7889888.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugD5951

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

Re: pppd handling of ms-wins

[Marcus Better]

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Jiri Kosina skrev:
> there are situations out there, in which pppd is not able to handle 
> ms-wins negotiation with certain UMTS/HSDPA/.... modems properly. More can 
> be seen on [1] and [2], including the discussion patch which fixes the 
> issue.

Yes, at the moment my OpenWRT router with a Huawei E220 USB modem
invariably fails on the first connection attempt after boot, but not on
subsequent attempts.

> Was there any discussion about the patch being rejected, or has it just 
> never been submitted properly to maintainers?

The latter.

I've had some feedback on the patch from a couple of users, it worked
for them as well and nobody has reported problems with it.

Cheers,

Marcus

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Re: pppd handling of ms-wins

[Marcus Better]

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Jiri Kosina wrote:
> [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugD5951

BTW the URL should be

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugD5711
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