Fuchs Josef wrote:
Dear List!
I use SuSE 7.3 with latest updates loaded.
I´ve discovered a problem with MS-VPN (ppp). When some Win98 PC connect to the VPN on the firewall, the firewall will stop (DOS) immediatly. Its hanging fully so that i can only switch the power off. No reaction on Keyboard.
This problem is specific to 2 PCs which are owned by an related company. When I try to connect to VPN with clean installed Win98 it´s working fine.
The problem is occuring EVERY time, when one of the 2 PCs try to connect, and ONLY then.
Yeah, yeah... Windows...!
I sent you some part of the system messages. [...] kind regards Josef Fuchs
----snip---- [...] Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley squid[1843]: Squid Parent: child process 1844 exited due to signal 11 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 240296ed Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: printing eip: Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: c012cc0a Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: *pde = 00000000 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: EIP: 0010:[__free_pages+2/32] Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: eax: 240296d5 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 240296d5 edx: 00000000 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: esi: d36870a0 edi: d36870fc ebp: c411e698 esp: d2843e88 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: Process squid (pid: 1844, stackpage=d2843000) Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: Stack: c01f029d d36870a0 00000081 c01f02db d36870a0 d36870a0 c01f0441 d36870a0 Feb 6 08:56:05 fwley kernel: d36870a0 00000000 c020ab53 d36870a0 c029f520 00015554 d2843f80 d2843f80 snip---------
What we have here is a Kernel oops. Your squid/ppptp did something stupid and died, tearing the system down (which shouldn't happen too often). How many users do you have? D'you have lots of traffic? Unfortunately you didn't state your kernel (2.2? 2.4?)/squid/ppptpd versions and your machine specs; also, it seems that there's an auth problem with one of the Win98 boxes (notice the CHAP error in your log excerpt).