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I have had a terrible time getting PPP to run on my
current setup.  I had it working at one location, and
after I moved, I tried to install it at another.  The
configuration is that I have PPP running on a Sparc1+
running SunOS 4.1.1 and PPP on a NeXT at home.  Everything
works fine except that when I try to do binary FTP transfers,
9 times out of 10, the Sparc will crash.

I think that I have narrowed down the problem. I wrote two simple test
programs that are designed to test the link.  They determine which
characters are being eaten as they are sent across (One program
writes, one reads).  Now, if I run the programs like:

   writeit | readit

without going over the link I get:
  Lost char number 9
  Lost char number 10
  Lost char number 11
  Lost char number 12
  Lost char number 13
  Lost char number 32
This is true on my NeXT and on our sun server.

When I run this over the modem link (and through the terminal server
that was in binary mode) I get the same thing.  This is OK because PPP
automatically escapes these characters and they get sent across fine
(asyncmap of all ones).

However, when I run the same program at the command prompt on the
Sparc running PPP I get (Please note that I am using kermit
to do these tests, not telnet or rlogin via PPP):

  Lost char number 9
  Lost char number 10
  Lost char number 11
  Lost char number 12
  Lost char number 13
  Lost char number 32
  Lost char number 134
  Lost char number 142
  Lost char number 150
  Lost char number 158
  Lost char number 166
  Lost char number 174
  Lost char number 182
  Lost char number 198
  Lost char number 206
  Lost char number 214
  Lost char number 221
  Lost char number 222
  Lost char number 234
  Lost char number 249
  Lost char number 250

Low and behold, I get the same characters lost when going over the
modem link.  These characters (the ones of value > 32) are not
automatically quoted by PPP.  They are being eaten and this is 
probably what causes the kernel to crash.

I checked the tty settings (via "stty everything") and they are
identical between the PPP sparc and our Sun server.  I also tried the
csh instead of tcsh. Both Suns (PPP Sparc and server) are running
SunOS 4.1.1.

Anybody have any ideas why the PPP Sparc is eating the extra
characters??

Any help would be sincerely appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve




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Stephen Perkins                    |
Department of Computer Science     | perkins@cps.msu.edu
Michigan State University          |