[pptp-server] Fix for out-of-order packets

[Matthew Ramsay]

G'day Phil,

I'll apply your changes and release 1.1.2 on the poptop.lineo.com web pages.

Cheers,
-matt



----- Original Message -----
From: Philip Van Baren <phil at vibrationresearch.com>
To: <pptp-server at lists.schulte.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: [pptp-server] Fix for out-of-order packets


> I put the latest version of my patch to add packet reordering to the
> pptpd-1.1.1 source code at:
>   http://www.vibrationresearch.com/pptpd/index.html
>
> This patch reorders out-of-order packets so that packets don't get dropped
> by pptpd when the network delivers some packets out of order.  This is
> basically the same patch as I posted to this list last week, but I've made
a
> couple changes to improve the response when packets are lost.  I also
added
> the fix from pptpd-1.0.1 for the infinite loop on disconnect problem.
>
> The above web page also has the patch to the ppp_mppe.c source to fix the
> Compressed Data bug (posted to this list earlier today by Philip
> Willoughby -- hope you don't mind, Philip).  With my patch, plus his patch
> to ppp_mppe, I can now get encrypted connections working even on a network
> that drops some packets and delivers lots of packets of out-of-order.
>
> On my VPN connection I typically get about 1% to 2% of my packets
delivered
> out-of-order, and this can go above 10% at bad times during the day.  I'm
> curious if I just have lame DSL providers on both ends, or if out-of-order
> packets is a common problem?
>
> Phil Van Baren
> phil at vibrationresearch.com
>
>
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