NetBSD Problem Report #41052

From jmcneill@discovery.invisible.ca  Sat Mar 21 13:56:07 2009
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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:44:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: pppoe(4): PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS should be a runtime option
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>Number:         41052
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       pppoe(4): PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS should be a runtime option
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 21 14:00:00 +0000 2009
>Last-Modified:  Sat Mar 21 16:45:01 +0000 2009
>Originator:     Jared D. McNeill
>Release:        NetBSD 4.0_STABLE
>Organization:

>Environment:


System: NetBSD discovery.invisible.ca 4.0_STABLE NetBSD 4.0_STABLE (DISCOVERY) #1: Sat Mar 21 09:30:45 EDT 2009 root@discovery.invisible.ca:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DISCOVERY i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
After discovering that the PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS option is needed to restore a PPPoE connection that has been down for hours, I think it would be nice if this option was configurable at runtime. Maybe it could even be enabled by default when the wildcard address is not used to configure the interface.
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>Audit-Trail:
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
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Subject: Re: kern/41052: pppoe(4): PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS should be a runtime option
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:44:17 +0100

 I'm not opposed to make it runtime configurable, but it should not be the
 default, as it is a realy evil hack. I don't understand which wildcard
 address you mean.

 Does the problem you see only happen after a crash? If so, I might be talked
 into making it the default untill the first session is established.

 If not, it would be better to understand what happened and why it was
 necessary in your case. It certainly is not needed in any sane setup
 (which of course includes the DSL providers part and typically is outside
 your controll.)

 Martin

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