Debian Bug report logs - #16590
diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 21:44:02 -0600

Package: diald
Version: 0.16.4-11

The last kernel that I could make work with diald was 2.1.65.  2.1.76 and
2.1.77 fail miserably.  It will establish a PPP connection but nothing can
get out.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux garfield 2.1.77 #2 Sat Jan 3 19:53:19 CST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages diald depends on:
libc6	Version: 2.0.6-1
netstd	Version: 3.00-1.2
netbase	Version: 3.02-1
ppp	Version: 2.3.2-1

--- Begin /etc/diald/ip-down (modified conffile)
iface=$1
netmask=$2
localip=$3
remoteip=$4
metric=$5
cpp -P /etc/hosts.template > /etc/hosts
/usr/bin/wwwoffle -offline -c /etc/wwwoffle.conf

--- End /etc/diald/ip-down

--- Begin /etc/diald/standard.filter (modified conffile)
accept tcp 15 tcp.syn
accept tcp 100 tcp.dest=tcp.domain
accept tcp 100 tcp.source=tcp.domain
ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.netbios-ns,tcp.dest=tcp.netbios-ns
accept tcp 5 ip.tot_len=40,tcp.syn
ignore tcp ip.tot_len=40,tcp.live
ignore tcp !tcp.live,tcp.dest=tcp.www
ignore tcp !tcp.live,tcp.source=tcp.www
accept tcp 1200 tcp.dest=tcp.www
accept tcp 1200 tcp.source=tcp.www
accept tcp 1200 tcp.dest=tcp.ftp
accept tcp 1200 tcp.source=tcp.ftp
accept tcp 1200 any
ignore udp udp.dest=udp.who
ignore udp udp.source=udp.who
ignore udp udp.dest=udp.route
ignore udp udp.source=udp.route
ignore udp udp.dest=udp.ntp
ignore udp udp.source=udp.ntp
ignore udp udp.dest=udp.timed
ignore udp udp.source=udp.timed
accept udp 1200 udp.dest=udp.domain 
accept udp 1200 udp.source=udp.domain
ignore udp udp.source=udp.netbios-ns,udp.dest=udp.netbios-ns
accept udp 30 udp.dest=udp.netbios-ns
accept udp 30 udp.source=udp.netbios-ns
ignore udp tcp.dest=udp.route
ignore udp tcp.source=udp.route
accept udp 1200 any
accept icmp 1200 any
accept any 1200 any

--- End /etc/diald/standard.filter

Message #10 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: jgoerzen@complete.org, 16590@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels 
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 04:18:52 -0800

On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:44:02 CST jgoerzen@complete.org wrote:

> The last kernel that I could make work with diald was 2.1.65.  2.1.76 and
> 2.1.77 fail miserably.  It will establish a PPP connection but nothing can
> get out.

Mmmh, I don't think it's diald because once the link is up, 
it has nothing left to do... 
From the linux-kernel mailing list, I saw that there has been a 
lot of problems with pppd lately... You might want to peek in the 
archives.
What's your /etc/diald/diald.options ?

Phil.

Message #15 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: 16590@bugs.debian.org, jgoerzen@complete.org
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: 26 Jan 1998 12:06:18 -0600

Hi,
>>"Philippe" == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

Philippe> On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:44:02 CST jgoerzen@complete.org
Philippe> wrote:

>> The last kernel that I could make work with diald was 2.1.65.
>> 2.1.76 and fail miserably.  It will establish a PPP connection but
>> nothing can get out.

Philippe> Mmmh, I don't think it's diald because once the link is up,
Philippe> it has nothing left to do...

	That is not entirely true. It needs to monitor the connection
 to see when it should be taken down (I aggressively take down my
 connection when idle).

	If one uses dctrl, on can see package queue's, and numerical
 and graphical load averages, and time to next alrm, etc. None of this
 works under 2.1.7+ kernels. 

	Unfotunately, that means diald pulls up a connection, which
 never really goes down.

	manoj
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Message #20 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: 16590@bugs.debian.org, srivasta@datasync.com
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: 26 Jan 1998 18:24:19 -0600

The trouble appears to be the routing entries; the routing stuff is so 
messed up I can't make heads or tails out of it.  Thus pppd thinks
it's working by establishing the connection but nothing goes out
because of the fouled up routing tables.

pppd by itself works fine.

John  

Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

> On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 21:44:02 CST jgoerzen@complete.org wrote:
> 
> > The last kernel that I could make work with diald was 2.1.65.  2.1.76 and
> > 2.1.77 fail miserably.  It will establish a PPP connection but nothing can
> > get out.
> 
> Mmmh, I don't think it's diald because once the link is up, 
> it has nothing left to do... 
> >From the linux-kernel mailing list, I saw that there has been a 
> lot of problems with pppd lately... You might want to peek in the 
> archives.
> What's your /etc/diald/diald.options ?
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 

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Message #25 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, 16590@bugs.debian.org
Cc: srivasta@datasync.com
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels 
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 02:19:58 -0800

On 26 Jan 1998 18:24:19 CST John Goerzen (jgoerzen@complete.org) 
wrote:

> The trouble appears to be the routing entries; the routing stuff is so 
> messed up I can't make heads or tails out of it.  Thus pppd thinks
> it's working by establishing the connection but nothing goes out
> because of the fouled up routing tables.
> 
> pppd by itself works fine.

Can you try the latest and greatest 0.16.5-1 ?

Otherwise, you can try:
 1) Tell diald how to do routing (use addroute and delroute)
 2) Don't reroute (use -reroute)

Phil.

Message #30 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: 16590@bugs.debian.org
Cc: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>, srivasta@datasync.com
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 02:18:18 -0700

Is this bug still present on diald 0.16.5-3 ?
I don't run diald on a 2.1.x machine so it's difficult to tell...

Phil.

Message #35 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
To: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
Cc: 16590@bugs.debian.org, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: 10 Aug 1998 10:18:06 -0500

Hi,
>>"Philippe" == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:

 Philippe> Is this bug still present on diald 0.16.5-3 ?
 Philippe> I don't run diald on a 2.1.x machine so it's difficult to tell...

	I have not tried yet. Did you incorporate the patches on the
 diald list? I am using those, and they work quite well.

	manoj
-- 
 That's odd.  That's very odd.  Wouldn't you say that's very odd?
Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
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Message #40 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>
Cc: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>, 16590@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: 10 Aug 1998 15:00:58 -0500

Well, it does seem to be working now, although it's been a long time
since I last tried.  There was probably a different problem before.
This time, I had to deal with a stubborn kernel that wouldn't want to
properly load the type of raw socket that diald wants automatically.
Once I didn't compile it as a module, everything worked, but this is
hardly diald's fault, so feel free to close it as far as I'm concerned.

Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> writes:

> Hi,
> >>"Philippe" == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
> 
>  Philippe> Is this bug still present on diald 0.16.5-3 ?
>  Philippe> I don't run diald on a 2.1.x machine so it's difficult to tell...
> 
> 	I have not tried yet. Did you incorporate the patches on the
>  diald list? I am using those, and they work quite well.
> 
> 	manoj
> -- 
>  That's odd.  That's very odd.  Wouldn't you say that's very odd?
> Manoj Srivastava  <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/>
> Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05  CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E
> 

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Message #45 received at 16590@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox):

From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
To: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com>, 16590@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#16590: diald: Doesn't work with 2.1.x kernels
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 19:28:46 -0700

Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> Hi,
> >>"Philippe" == Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org> writes:
>
>  Philippe> Is this bug still present on diald 0.16.5-3 ?
>  Philippe> I don't run diald on a 2.1.x machine so it's difficult to tell...
>
>         I have not tried yet. Did you incorporate the patches on the
>  diald list? I am using those, and they work quite well.

According to John, these patches are no more necessary. Would you give a try to
0.16.5-3 and tell me if it works for you ? I could then close this bug.

Phil.

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