the connection after an unexpected loss of carrier:
set reconnect timer ntries
The man page warns against using this command when your
timeout value is slightly more than the other sides :{}
Suggested by: burton@bsampley.vip.best.com (Burton Sampley)
list has been dialed. Alternate number dialing has no "pause".
Suggested by: joerg
Document this behaviour. Document that the number of dial attempts
applies to the number of phone calls rather than the number of times
each number is dialed. Add a missing .El. Give a decent description
of how to connect to an ISP.
and quitting telnet immediately (while phone number dialed)
Log client connection/disconnection with PHASE_BIT now.
Add more error recovery on client disconnection
Accept SIGHUP as a "re-open logfile" signal. As ppp
doesn't set it's serial line to it's controlling terminal,
we can use HUP :)
This is a candidate for 2.2. The log.[ch] changes won't
conflict, but the main.c changes will. We just want to change the
kill(...,SIGHUP) to a SIGTERM and change the signal(SIGHUP,Hangup)
to a pending_signal(SIGHUP,LogReOpen).
These changes should fix the signal "problems" in ppp.
The signal changes should really be put into 2.2 too !
The following patches should do it. There were some other
changes made by Andrey recently that havn't been brought
into 2.2, it may be worth doing them now.
we need now.
Don't assume that file descriptor can't be 0 (many places)
Protect FD_* macros from being used with negative descriptors
Shorten MS EXT show help to fit 80 cols
dangerous! Signal handlers themself must be fixed to not call malloc,
but no pended handlers, it will be correct fix. In finite case each signal
handler can set some variable which will be analized later, but calling
handler functions manually is too dangerous (f.e. signals not blocked while
the handler or handlers switch executed in this case). Of course this
code can be fixed instead of removing, but it not worth fixing in any case.
Should go into 2.2
In addition sig.c code shows following dangerous fragments (there can be more,
but I stop after two):
This fragment
if (fn == SIG_DFL || fn == SIG_IGN) {
handler[sig-1] = (sig_type)0;
<------------- here
signal(sig,fn);
} else {
cause NULL pointer reference when signal comes
"here", but more worse fragment is below:
void handle_signals() {
int sig;
if (caused)
for (sig=0; sig<__MAXSIG; sig++, caused>>=1)
if (caused&1)
(*handler[sig])(sig+1);
}
caused is bitmask which set corresponding bit on each signal coming.
And now imagine, what happens when some signal comes (bit sets) while loop
is executed (see caused>>=1 !!!)
In this light carrier drop situation was (as gdb shows)
1. SIGSEGV in handle_signals because some junk called as *handler reference.
2. Since SIGSEGV was pended too (== never happens),
it can cause various range of disasters.
Remove #include's from sig.h and get dependant modules to include them
themselves. Make inclusion of if_var.h depend on __FreeBSD_version so
that the -current version of ppp can be used with 2.1.*
2.2 Candidate ?
All signal() calls have been changed to pending_signal() calls.
pending_signal() is defined in the new sig.c file. It remembers
the handler and traps the signal with a function that will remember
the signal.
main.c now calls handle_signals() to actually call the required
handlers (if the above handler was called).
If this doesn't close PR2662 (was PR2347), I'll cry.
Joerg, I think this should go into 2.2, but I havn't done anything
about it because I'm bound to botch it with the new sig.[ch] files.
I've just "cvs add"'d sig.[ch] so far.... can you update to 2.2 and
tell me what you did ? Thanks.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
to be used to expand things beyond the size of the buffer passed in. Also
do a general cleanup of sprintf -> snprintf as well as strcpy and strncat
safety. Also expand some buffers to allow for the largest possible data
that might be used.
This is a 2.2 candidate. However, it needs to be vetted on -current
since little testing has been done on this due to my lack of PPP on
this machine.
Reviewed by: Jordan Hubbard, Peter Wemm, Guido van Rooij
connecting to a host immediately in the foreground.
I would like to be able to run ppp from a script so that my script can be
sure that it is connected to the 'net before it continues running:
# Dial up the internet.
ppp -background myprovider || exit 1
do-some-net-command
# Hang up the modem.
kill -HUP `cat /var/run/ppp.tun0.pid`
Another problem is that the current ppp calls its process id file
`/var/run/PPP.server', which may conflict if you have more than one IP
tunnel interface available.
Closes PR#1469
Submitted by: Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca>
(otherwise ppp's behavior remains unchanged) and documented by myself,
Steve Sims, Nate Williams, Martin Renters and god-only-knows who else. :-)
Submitted by: nate
Obtained from: Charles Mott <cmott@srv.net>
to keep the link up, so it re-dials whenever it detects the link go
down. This is useful for 'dedicated' links who use PPP.
It's been used for over a year w/out problems at different sites.
required. a core is not dumped at first connecting time and
dumped at second or third time. (patch I)
2. A routine for "show route" refers out of allocated space.
Values pointed by "lp" should be read as CHAR, I think.
there is also no free() for disallocation. (patch II)
Here is also a patch for an improvement: In current imprementation,
even if PPP connection is disconnected by time out, prompt of
interactive mode does not change from "PPP>" to "ppp>" to
indicate the disconnection on a terminal.
So I modified the code to do that. (patch III)
Submitted-By: NAKAMURA Motonori <motonori@econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
add some logging functionality which I find very useful.
'set debug link' will record just link up/down and address assignments.
'set debug connect' will record the entire chat dialog
'set debug carrier' will record just chat lines including 'CARRIER'
(so that I can be sure I'm getting a 28.8 line).
There was a global change required to permit LogPrintf to take a bit
mask instead of a bit position value (to permit logging some events
on either of two flags, so that no change in 'set debug lcp' would
result from the code supporting 'link'. Thus the diffs are rather
long for such a small change. The man page is also touched.
Oh, and there was a slight syntax problem in route.c
Reviewed by: phk
Submitted by: Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
to int32_t. I only fixed the ones that I noticed the warnings for.
Perhaps most of the format strings are correct now because they were
wrong before. Except of course if int32_t isn't compatible with `int'.
*not* our controlling terminal (SIGHUP can coming in other case)
2) Add HUPCL for non-dedicated lines to be shure that modem
properly resetted.
3) Correct usage string.
2) Improve on-line help subsystem
3) Make 'term' mode works even carrier dropped (old code
close line forever here)
4) Make 'term' mode 8bit clean.
5) Improve manual page
6) #ifdef DEBUG diagnostic about missing optional files.
7) Don't put interactive dialing info to logfile
ppp based on these patches for about 3 weeks with no downtime.
The original submitters comments:
Two features iijppp has over kernel ppp that I like are predictor1
compression and demand dialing. Here are a few bug fixes.
I expanded the priority queueing scheme and discovered it was broken
due to the assignment at ip.c line 300. All packets were being
queued at the same priority.
Fixing priority queueing broke predictor1 compression. Packets
were compressed before being queued and predictor1 worked as long
as the packets were popped off the queue in the same order they
were pushed onto the queue.
There were a few byte order problems in IP header tests also.
There is a recursion problem in SendLqrReport(). LcpClose() is
called when "Too many echo packets are lost" which winds up in
SendLqrReport() again. I believe the original intention was to
just stop the LQR timer with the call to StopLqr() but the side
effects hurt.
Submitted by: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
A settable redial timer helps to avoid the problem where both ends
of a link want to dial at the same time and the line winds up busy
for both ends. The process id is logged in /var/run/PPP.system where
system is the name of the called system. When both ends of a link
are running in demand dial mode, you need an easy way to get the pid
of the ppp on the called end so it can be killed and re-started with
-direct or pppd started to handle the incoming ppp session.
2. Add secret description for "set timeout" to man.
Reviewed by: Atsushi Murai <amurai@spec.co.jp>
Submitted by: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
dropped - devet@adv.IAEhv.nl (Arjan de Vet)
2. Will not read data from telnet connection - John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
3. Using LQM option could be drop the link due to LcpLayerDown() doesn't
stop LQR timer. - Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
4. Allow to describe a syntax of filters that is not only port number
but also by name in /etc/service. - Rich Murphey <rich@lamprey.utmb.edu>
Reviewed by: Atsushi Murai <amurai@spec.co.jp>
Submitted by: devet@adv.IAEhv.nl, jc@irbs.com, brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk,
rich@lamprey.utmb.edu
2. Optimize ModemQlen.
3. Sending ProtoReject for Unknow protocol (i.e. IPX)
4. Avoid select looping by reading tun under the high system load.
5. Adding Local version String for maintenance.
6. Just more speak rather silent ignore if you type invalid key words.
2.Implment Redail function as working correctly.
3.Clean up a code as I notice.
4.Now, RTT getting close to 50ms with ISDN/TA 38400bps !!
Reviewed by: amurai@spec.co.jp
Submitted by: amurai@spec.co.jp
o Supporting SYNC SIO device (But need a device driver)
- add "set speed sync"
o Fixing bug for Predictor-1 function.
o Add new parameter that re-sent interval for set timeout commands.
o Improving RTT (Round Trip Time) and reducing processor time.
- Previous Timer service was using polling, and now using
SIGALRM ;-)
- A 0.94beta2 will not work correctly....
-- Follows are additinal feature not including 0.94beta2
o Support Proxy ARP
- add "enable/disable proxy" commands
o Marging common routine in CHAP/PAP.
o Enhancing LCP/IPCP log information.
o Support local Authfication connection on port 300x and tty.
- You can set up pair of your "hostname -s" and
password in ppp.secret. if either ppp.secret file nor
your hostname line don't exist, It will notify a message
and working as same as previous version.(Backword compatibility)
- If you did set up them, It's allow connection but nothing to do
except help and passwd command.
- add "passwd yourpasswd" commands
o Support afilter - keep Alive filter that a packet can send/receiving
according to ifilter/ofilter but doesn't count it as preventing idle
timer expires.
- Same syntax of other filters.
o Fixing bugs reported by current user for previous one. Thanks !!
Reviewed by: Atsushi Murai (amurai@spec.co.jp)
