[MiNT] PPPD 2.3.11 bugs and various problems.

[Barry Schut <nut@fun-industries.nl>]

Hi folks, after a long time of inactivity on this 
list, i decided i had a problem worth mentioning.

PPPD latest (2.3.11) has some bugs i want to explain, 
i know they ARE bugs because the setup i use works ok 
with previous versions...

setup:   workstation                      Server
                                    INETMASQ(Serial2)
        TT030(modem2)~---serialline---~TT030(modem2)
        Mint 1.15.6                    Mint 1.15.6
        PPPD 2.3.11                    PPPD 2.3.11

NO sparemint setup, just KG/EMD
Using 1.15.6 because that has been proven to be the 
most stable at this current time.

bug 1:
When i (warm&cold)restart or halt the workstation the 
next time i boot it and start pppd i get:

Aug 14 13:13:22 NUTS-TT pppd[73]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
Aug 14 13:13:22 NUTS-TT pppd[73]: Removed stale lock on /dev/ttyS1 (pid 74)
Aug 14 13:13:23 NUTS-TT pppd[73]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Aug 14 13:13:27 NUTS-TT pppd[73]: local  IP address 192.168.0.2
Aug 14 13:13:27 NUTS-TT pppd[73]: remote IP address 192.168.0.1

how can it remove a stale lock when it is killed in 
the right way by shutdown (gem version) the previous 
time?
(notice the pid numbers, they prove the stale lock is 
from some other day!)

bug 2:

when i shutdown like i just discribed in the previous 
bug, the server will try to reconnect.
(cut from the options script i use)
/dev/ttyS1
# 153600      -NOTICE: remember this line for later.
defaultroute
noauth
lock
passive
persist
192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2
(uncut)
normaly when i start pppd, it will wait for a 
connection to be made by the other end (wait for lcp 
packages to be recieved). this indeed happens when i 
start pppd for the first time, then when i shutdown 
the workstation will TRY to return into the wait 
status... but it doesn't... it just retries and 
retries and retries, but never times out it's lcp.
eventualy it reaches the max try count (default 10 
times) and gives up...

how can this be, at first this feature DOES work, and 
when the connection is dropped it doesn't anymore...

bug 3:

there are 2 serial line speeds missing in the modem 
2 list... 78600 and 153200 (like in my options 
script) i need to set the speed with serial.cpx or 
hsmodinf.prg first before i can access this port at 
those speeds... mind you this is on a TT only! falcon
modem2 doesn't carry those speeds.

various pppd-unrelated.

I have some problems with my terminal settings on the 
server, somehow it doesn't work right, when i choose 
vt52 (or stv52) pico, lynx and ircII fuckup the 
screen, when i use vt100 the screen goes weird 
aswell, exept when i put vt52 or stv52 into my 
.bash_login as export value and type TERM=vt100 in 
the command line... who can shed some light into 
that?

my server is online 24/7 on nut.myip.org for web (no 
real page yet) ftp and telnet... the problems with 
terminal stuff start mostly when i use telnet ... and 
MOST of those problems start when i use the 'telnet' 
command... might this be a version too old?

thanks for your time.