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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xxebxebx@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reported
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:38:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1150148328.3062.49.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17548.52858.22555.610055@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 12:16 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as
> used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of
> data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530.
> I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the
> actual cause.

I was terribly afflicted by this bug and the patch seems to help.

Strangely, it made PPTP completely unusable with the -rt kernel - the
connection would hang forever - but with 2.6.16 it only seemed to slow
things down.

Lee


      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-12 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-12  2:16 [PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reported Paul Mackerras
2006-06-12 17:22 ` Michael Buesch
2006-06-12 21:38 ` Lee Revell [this message]

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