Has anyone else had trouble connecting to the internet through their DSL ethernet modems since upgrading to the third prerelease update?
For some reason, I was able to connect just fine before, but after making this most recent upgade, I can no longer get on-line. This is the report I get:

[2005-06-15 00:58:11] Dialer 50.15 (20.9.2004)
[2005-06-15 00:58:22] Entering ethernet configuration mode.
[2005-06-15 00:59:15] Could not open eth3com.device, unit 0. Error -1.
[2005-06-15 00:59:18] Opened eth3com.device, unit 0.
[2005-06-15 00:59:18] S2_DEVICEQUERY returned 1 (Ethernet).
[2005-06-15 01:02:41] Connection attempt has timed out.
[2005-06-15 01:02:42] Connection attempt failed
[2005-06-15 01:02:42] (Resource allocation failure, Transmission failed - too many retries)
[2005-06-15 01:03:24] Connection attempt has timed out.
[2005-06-15 01:03:24] Connection attempt failed
[2005-06-15 01:03:24] (Resource allocation failure, Transmission failed - too many retries)

Any idea?

@PEB

As I mentioned in a couple of old threads, I've had this problem forever and I was hoping this update would fix it (it was my most wanted feature)

I think that now it's the right time to give out the full details (especially for AOS developers, of course).


ABOUT CONNECTING

As said, connecting does not always succeed: it's not rare that I have to try 4 times or more (getting the messages PEB showed in his post). And some times it's almost impossible. On average, I'd say that I have to try twice.
I must say that this problem seems to be mitigated by update #3 (I can't tell for sure because I haven't tested it much yet).

Normally, I activate the connection by means of a key-press, which is set up by the line shown below (included in an ARexx script that is located in WBStartup):

KEYBOARD ADD NAME gol KEY "F4" CMD "'ADDRESS COMMAND ''C:WBRun SYS:Internet/Connections/DNA.conn''"

I have discovered that this is less likely to succeed than doing this from a shell:

Run >NIL: SYS:Internet/Dialer MODE=open CONFIGFILE=SYS:Internet/Connections/DNA.conn

(note: without Run, chances seem to lessen).


ABOUT DROP-OUTS

The worst thing is that I keep having sudden and unpredictable drop-outs (which force me to reconnect all the time, thus making the previous problem even worse).
These drop-outs can happen both when the connection is totally idle and during data transfers. The uptime varies greatly: it can be anything from a couple of seconds to hours (generally, it is around 10 minutes or so).

Sometimes, after a drop-out, it's impossible to reconnect as I'm immediately told "Resource allocation failure, Transmission failed - too many retries" (normally that message appears only when the connection could not be established within the given timeout).
Prior to this update, an Avail FLUSH allowed, most of the times, other connection attempts (especially after updates #1 and #2); now, Avail itself crashes.
This is the crash log:


***


Crash log for task "C:Avail"
Generated by GrimReaper 51.10
Crash occured in module at address 0x7062073C
Type of crash: ISI exception

Register dump:
GPR:
0: 0121CB48 0248B540 00000000 01F6D3F8 0213AA7A 013C4DE0 00000001 00000484
8: 0213AF10 7062073C 80000017 8000000F 00000000 00000000 FFFFFFFF 02140488
16: 02149BD0 00000000 0248B5D8 00000001 00000000 01662BB6 7FFFFFF0 016623B4
24: 00000001 013C44F0 02148758 00000000 00000000 01662BB6 016623B4 0213AA8C


FPR:
0: NaN 0 0 0
4: 0 0 0 0
8: 0 0 0 0
12: 1.75 0 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0
24: 0 0 0 0
28: 0 0 0 0


SPRs:
Machine State (msr) : 0x4000F030
Condition (cr) : 0x42042044
Instruction Pointer (ip) : 0x7062073C
Xtended Exception (xer) : 0x00000000
Count (ctr) : 0x7062073C
Link (lr) : 0x0122125C
DSI Status (dsisr) : 0x08000000
Data Address (dar) : 0x00000004



680x0:
DATA: 00000000 0489D8E5 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
ADDR: 126B7B10 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0248B430
FPU0: 0 0 0 0
FPU4: 0 0 0 0



Symbol info:
Instruction pointer 0x7062073C belongs to module "" (HUNK)

Stack trace:

native kernel module ramlib.kmod+0xb20
native kernel module kernel+0x2172c
native kernel module ramlib.kmod+0x2f4
native kernel module kernel+0x19ca0
native kernel module kernel+0x19eac
Avail:_start()+0x1CC (section 1 @ 0x324)
native kernel module dos.library.kmod+0x200c0


System information:

CPU
Model: Motorola MPC 7441/7451 Vger V2.1
CPU speed: 800 MHz
FSB speed: 133 MHz
Extensions: performancemonitor altivec

Machine
Machine name: AmigaOne
Memory: 262144 KB
Extensions: bus.pci bus.agp

Expansion buses
PCI/AGP
00:00.0 Vendor 0x10CC Device 0x0660
Range 0: 00000000 - 00400000 (PREF.MEM)
00:01.0 Vendor 0x10CC Device 0x0661
00:06.0 Vendor 0x10B7 Device 0x9200
Range 0: 00802000 - 00802080 (IO)
Range 1: 8C100000 - 8C100080 (MEM)
00:07.0 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x0686
00:07.1 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x0571
Range 4: 0000CC00 - 0000CC10 (IO)
00:07.2 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3038
Range 4: 00802080 - 008020A0 (IO)
00:07.3 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3038
Range 4: 008020A0 - 008020C0 (IO)
00:07.4 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3057
00:07.5 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3058
Range 0: 00802100 - 00802200 (IO)
Range 1: 00802200 - 00802208 (IO)
Range 2: 00802200 - 00802208 (IO)
00:07.6 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3068
Range 0: 00802300 - 00802400 (IO)
00:08.0 Vendor 0x1095 Device 0x0680
Range 0: 00802400 - 00802408 (IO)
Range 1: 00802408 - 00802410 (IO)
Range 2: 00802410 - 00802418 (IO)
Range 3: 00802418 - 00802420 (IO)
Range 4: 00802420 - 00802430 (IO)
00:0A.0 Vendor 0x1102 Device 0x0002
Range 0: 00802440 - 00802460 (IO)
00:0A.1 Vendor 0x1102 Device 0x7002
Range 0: 00802460 - 00802468 (IO)
01:00.0 Vendor 0x1002 Device 0x4966
Range 0: 80000000 - 84000000 (PREF.MEM)
Range 1: 00002000 - 00002100 (IO)
Range 2: 84000000 - 84010000 (MEM)
01:00.1 Vendor 0x1002 Device 0x496E
Range 0: 88000000 - 8C000000 (PREF.MEM)
Range 1: 8C000000 - 8C010000 (MEM)

Libraries
0x01662bb6: exec.library V51.28
0x016d07cc: vilintuisup.library V0.9
0x016d05b8: cgxvideo.library V42.1
0x016ce330: cybergraphics.library V42.7
0x01c1d080: newlib.library V3.10
0x02262136: IBAreaPlugin.mcc V0.0 (Legacy)
0x022620e6: IBGroupPlugin.mcc V0.0 (Legacy)
0x02346900: gif.datatype V51.1
0x02367328: jpeg.datatype V51.4
0x023005c6: javascript.library V2.1 (Legacy)
0x022704f0: muipropg.class V20.250
0x0227a630: xenbar.image V19.5 (Legacy)
0x0226e768: muiwinborder.class V20.250
0x0226d2f0: NListview.mcc V19.70
0x02269510: Popasl.mui V20.177
0x022685e8: NList.mcc V20.115
0x02265fbe: Newstring.mcc V16.15 (Legacy)
0x02266090: Floattext.mui V20.175
0x02266258: Virtgroup.mui V20.350
0x02265868: Listtree.mcc V20.20
0x02260978: muigfx.library V20.506
0x0226e0a0: muilowlevel.library V20.346
0x0227d89c: muimaster.library V20.2268
0x01f68880: speedbar.gadget V51.1
0x01f5fba8: texteditor.gadget V51.1
0x01f545b8: getfont.gadget V50.9
0x01f53118: getfile.gadget V51.1
0x01f53388: popupmenu.library V50.12
0x01f51d80: slider.gadget V51.2
0x01f610e0: popupmenu.class V50.3
0x01f60650: space.gadget V50.7
0x01f70138: listbrowser.gadget V51.5
0x01c14d48: string.gadget V51.3
0x01c110d8: integer.gadget V50.39
0x01c11268: label.image V51.4
0x01c10a30: clicktab.gadget V51.3
0x01c0b5a8: scroller.gadget V50.56
0x01c0b780: penmap.image V51.1
0x01c09ca8: window.class V51.6
0x01c09ee8: chooser.gadget V51.2
0x01c052c0: layout.gadget V51.7
0x01c044f8: bevel.image V51.3
0x01c03ab0: drawlist.image V50.3
0x01c02830: checkbox.gadget V51.22
0x01c02a50: glyph.image V50.25
0x01bd8908: application.library V50.20
0x021405b8: button.gadget V51.1
0x0213f9f4: asl.library V51.15
0x0214c764: commodities.library V50.3
0x0215a350: requester.class V51.12
0x016cd270: png.datatype V51.1
0x01d05ad0: mathieeedoubbas.library V45.3 (Legacy)
0x01e168a4: emulation.library V41.427
0x01e15334: picture.datatype V51.3
0x01d2baa8: ilbm.datatype V50.2
0x01d26b84: ft2.library V7.26
0x01d254a8: Picasso96API.library V2.337
0x01d23e2c: workbench.library V51.11
0x01d25660: gadtools.library V51.1
0x01c2f1d8: datatypes.library V51.2
0x01e3532c: usergroup.library V4.27
0x01d71c08: bsdsocket.library V4.263
0x01c2c90a: textclip.library V50.3 (Legacy)
0x01c2cbd8: icon.library V51.7
0x01c24448: iffparse.library V50.4
0x01c21428: locale.library V51.11
0x01c23f80: diskfont.library V51.9
0x01790208: diskcache.library V3.3
0x017281b8: dos.library V51.57
0x016d8864: elf.library V51.8
0x016cdca8: rtg.library V41.4264
0x016d8940: ATIRadeon.chip V51.12
0x016d097c: PCIGraphics.card V51.9
0x016b9840: intuition.library V51.27
0x016b8e60: keymap.library V51.4
0x016b36d0: layers.library V51.2
0x016b1a18: graphics.library V51.22
0x016ac6a4: utility.library V51.3
0x016abfb0: expansion.library V51.7
0x01d05ea6: rexxsyslib.library V45.3 (Legacy)

Devices
0x0213aa8c: eth3com.device V51.12
0x01c319ac: ppp-ethernet.device V2.141
0x016dd48c: sii0680ide.device V51.43
0x016d7348: console.device V50.1 (Legacy)
0x016b9158: ramdrive.device V50.7
0x016b3edc: input.device V50.19
0x016b3c44: keyboard.device V50.11
0x016b3914: gameport.device V50.8
0x016b33e8: timer.device V51.16

Tasks
ClickToFront (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f912f8 - 0x01fa12f4, pointer @ 0x01fa1250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc000d000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
input.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x016b42e8 - 0x016b82e8, pointer @ 0x016b8250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
SFS DosList handler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0179f3f0 - 0x017ab2ec, pointer @ 0x017ab250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
sii0680ide.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0171e648 - 0x01726648, pointer @ 0x01726570 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x20000000
State: Task (Waiting)
DH5 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0180ec10 - 0x0181ab0c, pointer @ 0x0181aa60 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x018407b8 - 0x0184c6b4, pointer @ 0x0184c610 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH2 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01872360 - 0x0187e25c, pointer @ 0x0187e1b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017b81c0 - 0x017c40bc, pointer @ 0x017c4010 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH2 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x018660e8 - 0x01871fe4, pointer @ 0x01871ed0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH5 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01802998 - 0x0180e894, pointer @ 0x0180e780 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01834540 - 0x0184043c, pointer @ 0x01840320 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CD0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017d1248 - 0x017dd144, pointer @ 0x017dd090 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CD1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017e9df0 - 0x017f5cec, pointer @ 0x017f5c30 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
RAM (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bb1840 - 0x01bbd73c, pointer @ 0x01bbd400 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000100, SigWait 0x20000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017842d8 - 0x017901d4, pointer @ 0x017900c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH4 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01897c90 - 0x018a3b8c, pointer @ 0x018a3ac0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xa8000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH3 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01a09ef0 - 0x01a15dec, pointer @ 0x01a15d20 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xa8000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
console.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x016db340 - 0x016dd340, pointer @ 0x016dd2f0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf0000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
dos_nbmd_process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017429e8 - 0x0174e8e4, pointer @ 0x0174e870 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
dos_flc_handler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0174e920 - 0x0175a81c, pointer @ 0x0175a760 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
RAW (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01b7c150 - 0x01b8804c, pointer @ 0x01b87e70 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01b96cc8 - 0x01ba2bc4, pointer @ 0x01ba29f0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020981fc - 0x020a81f4, pointer @ 0x020a80d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020781d4 - 0x020881cc, pointer @ 0x020880b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020ea1ac - 0x020fa1a4, pointer @ 0x020fa080 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020c91a4 - 0x020d919c, pointer @ 0x020d9080 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0234d5a4 - 0x0235d59c, pointer @ 0x0235d470 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0231511c - 0x02325114, pointer @ 0x02325000 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x021fa4f4 - 0x0220a4ec, pointer @ 0x0220a3c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0218a46c - 0x0219a464, pointer @ 0x0219a350 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ENV (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c58e68 - 0x01c68e64, pointer @ 0x01c68c90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
RexxMaster [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01ead554 - 0x01ebd54c, pointer @ 0x01ebd4b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TEXTCLIP (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01cebfb4 - 0x01cfbfac, pointer @ 0x01cfbf10 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench Clipboard Server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bf14a8 - 0x01c014a4, pointer @ 0x01c01410 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
string.gadget server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f3f610 - 0x01f4f60c, pointer @ 0x01f4f440 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench [Workbench] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e6d500 - 0x01e7d4fc, pointer @ 0x01e7d420 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Control (Ready)
Stack: 0x01df2190 - 0x01e0218c, pointer @ 0x01e01fe0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf8009080, SigWait 0x40000100
State: Process (Ready)
Background CLI [SYS:Tools/FastFileSystem/fs_plugin_cache] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c88ea8 - 0x01c98ea4, pointer @ 0x01c98b90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:Tools/FastFileSystem/fs_plugin_cache] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01cbb7a8 - 0x01ccb7a4, pointer @ 0x01ccb490 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Log (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d720f0 - 0x01d820ec, pointer @ 0x01d82050 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80003000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
Picasso96 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e04268 - 0x01e14264, pointer @ 0x01e14150 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xfffe0000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
datatypes.library (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e53c20 - 0x01e63c1c, pointer @ 0x01e63b70 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00001100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ConClip (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e8d528 - 0x01e9d524, pointer @ 0x01e9d420 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:System/PowerIcons] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01edd590 - 0x01eed58c, pointer @ 0x01eed2b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:System/WBText] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f0d614 - 0x01f1d594, pointer @ 0x01f1d470 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
« IPrefs » (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d418a8 - 0x01d518a4, pointer @ 0x01d51390 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0xc0000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ASYNCWB (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01fb27e0 - 0x01fc27dc, pointer @ 0x01fc2680 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
RAWBInfo (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01fd5888 - 0x01fe5884, pointer @ 0x01fe57b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000010
State: Process (Waiting)
WinCycler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01ff6764 - 0x020066a4, pointer @ 0x020065c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
DefIcons (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020a8210 - 0x020b820c, pointer @ 0x020b8020 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80009000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
application.library messageserver (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c114d0 - 0x01c12470, pointer @ 0x01c123d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
texteditor.gadget Clipboard Server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02120fa8 - 0x02130fa4, pointer @ 0x02130f00 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
AmiDock (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020581a8 - 0x020681a4, pointer @ 0x02067c50 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x7e00d000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
NotePad (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02100e48 - 0x02110e44, pointer @ 0x02110400 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0003000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Superserver [TCP/IP Superserver] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01dd2168 - 0x01de2164, pointer @ 0x01de19d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xd0000080, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
muigfx.library (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0228db18 - 0x0229db14, pointer @ 0x0229da40 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Blanker (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02018d48 - 0x02028d44, pointer @ 0x02028c90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc000d000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Configuration (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d92118 - 0x01da2114, pointer @ 0x01da1fa0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf8003000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ppp-ethernet.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01db2140 - 0x01dc213c, pointer @ 0x01dc2070 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xdc000000, SigWait 0x20000001
State: Process (Waiting)
IBrowse (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02247794 - 0x022576d4, pointer @ 0x022570a0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x33e09000, SigWait 0x40000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench Rexx Handler [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0216a440 - 0x0217a43c, pointer @ 0x0217a340 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ARexx [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0241b3c4 - 0x0242b3bc, pointer @ 0x0242b160 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
reaper.task (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bd8bb0 - 0x01be4aac, pointer @ 0x01be4870 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00003000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ramlib (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01be4bf8 - 0x01bf0af4, pointer @ 0x01bf0a60 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [C:Avail] (Crashed)
Stack: 0x0247b738 - 0x0248b734, pointer @ 0x0248b540 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Crashed)
idle.task (Ready)
Stack: 0x016af2f8 - 0x016b02f8, pointer @ 0x016b02c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Ready)


****


If I repeat the Avail FLUSH after the one that has crashed, the command works just fine. Only that this is of no help because trying to reconnect produces yet another crash (with update #3 only), this time by RAMLIB that tries to access the eth3com.device (I guess in a non-sane state), whose crash log is:


***


Crash log for task "RAMLIB: opening eth3com.device"
Generated by GrimReaper 51.10
Crash occured in module kernel at address 0x01218C04
Type of crash: DSI exception

Register dump:
GPR:
0: 00000000 025DB180 00000000 00000000 0213AA8C 021544F4 00000000 00000000
8: FEC00CF8 00000000 00010180 00000000 42044044 00000000 FFFFFFFF 00000000
16: 02150FF0 02150B2A 01670000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 FFFFFFFF
24: 021543A0 80000000 01218C60 021544F4 01662BB6 016623B4 021544F4 02153420


FPR:
0: NaN 0 0 0
4: 0 0 0 0
8: 0 0 0 0
12: 1.75 0 0 0
16: 0 0 0 0
20: 0 0 0 0
24: 0 0 0 0
28: 0 0 0 0


SPRs:
Machine State (msr) : 0x0000F030
Condition (cr) : 0x22042044
Instruction Pointer (ip) : 0x01218C04
Xtended Exception (xer) : 0x20000000
Count (ctr) : 0x01218BB8
Link (lr) : 0x01221784
DSI Status (dsisr) : 0x0A000000
Data Address (dar) : 0x00000000



680x0:
DATA: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
ADDR: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
FPU0: 0 0 0 0
FPU4: 0 0 0 0



Symbol info:
Instruction pointer 0x01218C04 belongs to module "kernel" (HUNK)

Stack trace:
native kernel module kernel+0x18c04
native kernel module kernel+0x23758
native kernel module ramlib.kmod+0x1808
native kernel module dos.library.kmod+0x200c0


System information:

CPU
Model: Motorola MPC 7441/7451 Vger V2.1
CPU speed: 800 MHz
FSB speed: 133 MHz
Extensions: performancemonitor altivec

Machine
Machine name: AmigaOne
Memory: 262144 KB
Extensions: bus.pci bus.agp

Expansion buses
PCI/AGP
00:00.0 Vendor 0x10CC Device 0x0660
Range 0: 00000000 - 00400000 (PREF.MEM)
00:01.0 Vendor 0x10CC Device 0x0661
00:06.0 Vendor 0x10B7 Device 0x9200
Range 0: 00802000 - 00802080 (IO)
Range 1: 8C100000 - 8C100080 (MEM)
00:07.0 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x0686
00:07.1 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x0571
Range 4: 0000CC00 - 0000CC10 (IO)
00:07.2 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3038
Range 4: 00802080 - 008020A0 (IO)
00:07.3 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3038
Range 4: 008020A0 - 008020C0 (IO)
00:07.4 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3057
00:07.5 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3058
Range 0: 00802100 - 00802200 (IO)
Range 1: 00802200 - 00802208 (IO)
Range 2: 00802200 - 00802208 (IO)
00:07.6 Vendor 0x1106 Device 0x3068
Range 0: 00802300 - 00802400 (IO)
00:08.0 Vendor 0x1095 Device 0x0680
Range 0: 00802400 - 00802408 (IO)
Range 1: 00802408 - 00802410 (IO)
Range 2: 00802410 - 00802418 (IO)
Range 3: 00802418 - 00802420 (IO)
Range 4: 00802420 - 00802430 (IO)
00:0A.0 Vendor 0x1102 Device 0x0002
Range 0: 00802440 - 00802460 (IO)
00:0A.1 Vendor 0x1102 Device 0x7002
Range 0: 00802460 - 00802468 (IO)
01:00.0 Vendor 0x1002 Device 0x4966
Range 0: 80000000 - 84000000 (PREF.MEM)
Range 1: 00002000 - 00002100 (IO)
Range 2: 84000000 - 84010000 (MEM)
01:00.1 Vendor 0x1002 Device 0x496E
Range 0: 88000000 - 8C000000 (PREF.MEM)
Range 1: 8C000000 - 8C010000 (MEM)

Libraries
0x01662bb6: exec.library V51.28
0x016d07cc: vilintuisup.library V0.9
0x016d05b8: cgxvideo.library V42.1
0x016ce330: cybergraphics.library V42.7
0x02150028: text.datatype V51.6
0x02150108: ascii.datatype V51.2
0x020ffcd8: fuelgauge.gadget V51.1
0x01c45efc: xadmaster.library V13.0
0x01c3ad20: bitmap.image V51.1
0x01c1c0a8: radiobutton.gadget V51.10
0x01c1ba18: resource.library V44.103 (Legacy)
0x01c1aae4: amigaguide.datatype V50.9
0x01c1ad9c: amigaguide.library V50.2
0x01c198a6: mathieeedoubtrans.library V45.5 (Legacy)
0x01c195a8: mathieeesingbas.library V50.1 (Legacy)
0x01c1d080: newlib.library V3.10
0x02262136: IBAreaPlugin.mcc V0.0 (Legacy)
0x022620e6: IBGroupPlugin.mcc V0.0 (Legacy)
0x02346900: gif.datatype V51.1
0x02367328: jpeg.datatype V51.4
0x023005c6: javascript.library V2.1 (Legacy)
0x022704f0: muipropg.class V20.250
0x0227a630: xenbar.image V19.5 (Legacy)
0x0226e768: muiwinborder.class V20.250
0x0226d2f0: NListview.mcc V19.70
0x02269510: Popasl.mui V20.177
0x022685e8: NList.mcc V20.115
0x02265fbe: Newstring.mcc V16.15 (Legacy)
0x02266090: Floattext.mui V20.175
0x02266258: Virtgroup.mui V20.350
0x02265868: Listtree.mcc V20.20
0x02260978: muigfx.library V20.506
0x0226e0a0: muilowlevel.library V20.346
0x0227d89c: muimaster.library V20.2268
0x01f68880: speedbar.gadget V51.1
0x01f5fba8: texteditor.gadget V51.1
0x01f545b8: getfont.gadget V50.9
0x01f53118: getfile.gadget V51.1
0x01f53388: popupmenu.library V50.12
0x01f51d80: slider.gadget V51.2
0x01f610e0: popupmenu.class V50.3
0x01f60650: space.gadget V50.7
0x01f70138: listbrowser.gadget V51.5
0x01c14d48: string.gadget V51.3
0x01c110d8: integer.gadget V50.39
0x01c11268: label.image V51.4
0x01c10a30: clicktab.gadget V51.3
0x01c0b5a8: scroller.gadget V50.56
0x01c0b780: penmap.image V51.1
0x01c09ca8: window.class V51.6
0x01c09ee8: chooser.gadget V51.2
0x01c052c0: layout.gadget V51.7
0x01c044f8: bevel.image V51.3
0x01c03ab0: drawlist.image V50.3
0x01c02830: checkbox.gadget V51.22
0x01c02a50: glyph.image V50.25
0x01bd8908: application.library V50.20
0x021405b8: button.gadget V51.1
0x0213f9f4: asl.library V51.15
0x0214c764: commodities.library V50.3
0x0215a350: requester.class V51.12
0x016cd270: png.datatype V51.1
0x01d05ad0: mathieeedoubbas.library V45.3 (Legacy)
0x01e168a4: emulation.library V41.427
0x01e15334: picture.datatype V51.3
0x01d2baa8: ilbm.datatype V50.2
0x01d26b84: ft2.library V7.26
0x01d254a8: Picasso96API.library V2.337
0x01d23e2c: workbench.library V51.11
0x01d25660: gadtools.library V51.1
0x01c2f1d8: datatypes.library V51.2
0x01e3532c: usergroup.library V4.27
0x01d71c08: bsdsocket.library V4.263
0x01c2c90a: textclip.library V50.3 (Legacy)
0x01c2cbd8: icon.library V51.7
0x01c24448: iffparse.library V50.4
0x01c21428: locale.library V51.11
0x01c23f80: diskfont.library V51.9
0x01790208: diskcache.library V3.3
0x017281b8: dos.library V51.57
0x016d8864: elf.library V51.8
0x016cdca8: rtg.library V41.4264
0x016d8940: ATIRadeon.chip V51.12
0x016d097c: PCIGraphics.card V51.9
0x016b9840: intuition.library V51.27
0x016b8e60: keymap.library V51.4
0x016b36d0: layers.library V51.2
0x016b1a18: graphics.library V51.22
0x016ac6a4: utility.library V51.3
0x016abfb0: expansion.library V51.7
0x01d05ea6: rexxsyslib.library V45.3 (Legacy)

Devices
0x01c319ac: ppp-ethernet.device V2.141
0x016dd48c: sii0680ide.device V51.43
0x016d7348: console.device V50.1 (Legacy)
0x016b9158: ramdrive.device V50.7
0x016b3edc: input.device V50.19
0x016b3c44: keyboard.device V50.11
0x016b3914: gameport.device V50.8
0x016b33e8: timer.device V51.16

Tasks
ClickToFront (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f912f8 - 0x01fa12f4, pointer @ 0x01fa1250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc000d000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
input.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x016b42e8 - 0x016b82e8, pointer @ 0x016b8250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
SFS DosList handler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0179f3f0 - 0x017ab2ec, pointer @ 0x017ab250 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
sii0680ide.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0171e648 - 0x01726648, pointer @ 0x01726570 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x20000000
State: Task (Waiting)
DH5 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0180ec10 - 0x0181ab0c, pointer @ 0x0181aa60 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x018407b8 - 0x0184c6b4, pointer @ 0x0184c610 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH2 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01872360 - 0x0187e25c, pointer @ 0x0187e1b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017b81c0 - 0x017c40bc, pointer @ 0x017c4010 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH2 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x018660e8 - 0x01871fe4, pointer @ 0x01871ed0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01834540 - 0x0184043c, pointer @ 0x01840320 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH5 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01802998 - 0x0180e894, pointer @ 0x0180e780 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CD0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017d1248 - 0x017dd144, pointer @ 0x017dd090 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CD1 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017e9df0 - 0x017f5cec, pointer @ 0x017f5c30 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
RAM (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bb1840 - 0x01bbd73c, pointer @ 0x01bbd400 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000100, SigWait 0x20000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH4 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01897c90 - 0x018a3b8c, pointer @ 0x018a3ac0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xa8000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH3 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01a09ef0 - 0x01a15dec, pointer @ 0x01a15d20 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xa8000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
DH0 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017842d8 - 0x017901d4, pointer @ 0x017900c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0000100, SigWait 0x18000000
State: Process (Waiting)
console.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x016db340 - 0x016dd340, pointer @ 0x016dd2f0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf0000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
dos_nbmd_process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x017429e8 - 0x0174e8e4, pointer @ 0x0174e870 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
dos_flc_handler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0174e920 - 0x0175a81c, pointer @ 0x0175a760 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
RAW (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01b7c150 - 0x01b8804c, pointer @ 0x01b87e70 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01b96cc8 - 0x01ba2bc4, pointer @ 0x01ba29f0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020981fc - 0x020a81f4, pointer @ 0x020a80d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020781d4 - 0x020881cc, pointer @ 0x020880b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020ea1ac - 0x020fa1a4, pointer @ 0x020fa080 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020c91a4 - 0x020d919c, pointer @ 0x020d9080 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0234d5a4 - 0x0235d59c, pointer @ 0x0235d470 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0231511c - 0x02325114, pointer @ 0x02325000 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x021fa4f4 - 0x0220a4ec, pointer @ 0x0220a3c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0218a46c - 0x0219a464, pointer @ 0x0219a350 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
KingCON DOS-process (Waiting)
Stack: 0x026bb3a4 - 0x026cb39c, pointer @ 0x026cb270 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
CON (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0269b37c - 0x026ab374, pointer @ 0x026ab260 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ENV (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c58e68 - 0x01c68e64, pointer @ 0x01c68c90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
RexxMaster [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01ead554 - 0x01ebd54c, pointer @ 0x01ebd4b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TEXTCLIP (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01cebfb4 - 0x01cfbfac, pointer @ 0x01cfbf10 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench Clipboard Server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bf14a8 - 0x01c014a4, pointer @ 0x01c01410 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
string.gadget server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f3f610 - 0x01f4f60c, pointer @ 0x01f4f440 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench [Workbench] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e6d500 - 0x01e7d4fc, pointer @ 0x01e7d420 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
RAMLIB: opening eth3com.device (Crashed)
Stack: 0x025cb270 - 0x025db26c, pointer @ 0x025db180 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Crashed)
Dialer (Ready)
Stack: 0x0267b350 - 0x0268b34c, pointer @ 0x0268a3a0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000010, SigWait 0x00000110
State: Process (Ready)
Background CLI [SYS:Tools/FastFileSystem/fs_plugin_cache] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c88ea8 - 0x01c98ea4, pointer @ 0x01c98b90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:Tools/FastFileSystem/fs_plugin_cache] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01cbb7a8 - 0x01ccb7a4, pointer @ 0x01ccb490 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Log (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d720f0 - 0x01d820ec, pointer @ 0x01d82050 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80003000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
Picasso96 (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e04268 - 0x01e14264, pointer @ 0x01e14150 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xfffe0000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
datatypes.library (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e53c20 - 0x01e63c1c, pointer @ 0x01e63b70 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00001100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ConClip (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01e8d528 - 0x01e9d524, pointer @ 0x01e9d420 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:System/PowerIcons] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01edd590 - 0x01eed58c, pointer @ 0x01eed2b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Background CLI [SYS:System/WBText] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01f0d614 - 0x01f1d594, pointer @ 0x01f1d470 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
« IPrefs » (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d418a8 - 0x01d518a4, pointer @ 0x01d51390 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x0000f000, SigWait 0xc0000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ASYNCWB (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01fb27e0 - 0x01fc27dc, pointer @ 0x01fc2680 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
RAWBInfo (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01fd5888 - 0x01fe5884, pointer @ 0x01fe57b0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80001000, SigWait 0x00000010
State: Process (Waiting)
DefIcons (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020a8210 - 0x020b820c, pointer @ 0x020b8020 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80009000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
application.library messageserver (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01c114d0 - 0x01c12470, pointer @ 0x01c123d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Waiting)
texteditor.gadget Clipboard Server (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02120fa8 - 0x02130fa4, pointer @ 0x02130f00 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x80000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
muigfx.library (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0228db18 - 0x0229db14, pointer @ 0x0229da40 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Blanker (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02018d48 - 0x02028d44, pointer @ 0x02028c90 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc000d000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
Workbench Rexx Handler [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0216a440 - 0x0217a43c, pointer @ 0x0217a340 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x40000000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ARexx [] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0241b3c4 - 0x0242b3bc, pointer @ 0x0242b160 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000100, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
AmiDock (Waiting)
Stack: 0x020581a8 - 0x020681a4, pointer @ 0x02067c50 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x7e00d000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
AmigaGuide® (amigaguide.datatype) [AmigaGuide® (amigaguide.datatype)] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x025131b8 - 0x025231b4, pointer @ 0x02522b60 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0005000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
AmigaGuide® (amigaguide.library) [AmigaGuide® (amigaguide.library)] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x0249a3e0 - 0x024aa3dc, pointer @ 0x024aa280 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xe0009000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
ClassAction (Waiting)
Stack: 0x021ca4a4 - 0x021da49c, pointer @ 0x021da3e0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x9d001000, SigWait 0x02000100
State: Process (Waiting)
IBrowse (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02247794 - 0x022576d4, pointer @ 0x022570a0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x33e09000, SigWait 0x40000100
State: Process (Waiting)
WinCycler (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01ff6764 - 0x020066a4, pointer @ 0x020065c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0001000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Superserver [TCP/IP Superserver] (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01dd2168 - 0x01de2164, pointer @ 0x01de19d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xd0000080, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Configuration (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01d92118 - 0x01da2114, pointer @ 0x01da1fa0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf8003000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
NotePad (Waiting)
Stack: 0x02100e48 - 0x02110e44, pointer @ 0x02110400 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xc0003000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
ppp-ethernet.device (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01db2140 - 0x01dc213c, pointer @ 0x01dc1a40 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000010, SigWait 0x20000001
State: Process (Waiting)
ramlib (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01be4bf8 - 0x01bf0af4, pointer @ 0x01bf08d0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00006000, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
reaper.task (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01bd8bb0 - 0x01be4aac, pointer @ 0x01be4870 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00003000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Process (Waiting)
TCP/IP Control (Waiting)
Stack: 0x01df2190 - 0x01e0218c, pointer @ 0x01e01fe0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0xf8009080, SigWait 0x00000100
State: Process (Waiting)
idle.task (Ready)
Stack: 0x016af2f8 - 0x016b02f8, pointer @ 0x016b02c0 (Cookie OK)
Signals: SigRec 0x00000000, SigWait 0x00000000
State: Task (Ready)


***


GENERAL NOTES AND TECHNICAL DETAILS

It's interesting how during nighttime neither problem happens frequently (at times never at all!): this seems to indicate that a factor could be external network traffic (seems strange, but what else could be?).

I live in a VDSL area and I have a VDSL modem (Cisco 575 LRE), but my actual connection is only a 1024/512 kbps ADSL.

My machine is an A1XE (MPC7550 @ 800 MHz), with 256 Mb RAM and a Silicon 680 card (so, no, it's not an issue with the fact that my board is not fixed).
With the same machine, I have no trouble whatsoever connecting from the Linux side.

This is my connection configuration:

# PROGDIR:Connections/DNA.conn
# File generated by Dialer 50.14 (18.9.2004)
# On Monday, 16-May-05 at 19:38:52
interface="PPPoE"
device="eth3com.device"
pppoe=yes
connecttimeout=5
sendid=off
login=""
password=""
provider="DNA"
hidewindow="connect"
animations=off

I have tried many, many different configurations (also using the same values as in Linux), but they gave always the same results.

Finally - yes - my startup-sequence has always hosted the line:

Run >NIL: C:AddNetInterface DEVS:NetInterfaces/PPPoE >NIL:


I hope this may help me and fixing network problems for the final release of AOS4 (which, BTW, just rocks, especially with the speedup of graphics of this update ).

saimo

[edit: a couple of chars messed up with the BBCs]

Last edited by saimo on 15-Jun-2005 at 08:47 AM.

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@saimo

Man, that was a LENGTHY (and detailed) report

I hope that your problems will get sorted out!

Varthall

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I never had any ethernet problem. I use ADSL and i'm behind a router. Out of curiosity, have you tried to use a router? Only to know if the problems happens again.

At work i see several times a lot of weird problems. Very diffucult to understand what is the cause.

Connection drop after a while on 2 pcs. One was the cable, working for some time and then not. One was teh ethernet plug. very weird because after a reboot the connection was active again most of the times. We tries to investigate the thing further after i reistalling this crap WinXp and the problem was still here.

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@ikir

the router is different from a modem. Because it has the logic inside it and you see it like a network card. Nothing else. With a modem is different.

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@Varthall

Quote:

Man, that was a LENGTHY (and detailed) report

Well, you know, most of the length and details are a courtesy of GrimReaper


Quote:

I hope that your problems will get sorted out!

Thank you


saimo

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@ikir

I don't think it's a HW problem otherwise I'd suffer the same problems also on Linux. Maybe the Linux drivers are a bit smarter and are able to re-connect when the connection drops unsolicitedly, but even if it were so they would be extremely quick and functional(*), as I can not notice anything.

(*) This is in no way meant to be an indirect way of saying "AOS4 drivers are crap": I don't think so at all and I perfectly understand that they need time to mature.

saimo

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@saimo

Quote:

now, Avail itself crashes.

Can't help you with the ethernet problem (I'm forwarding the link to the dev list), but it's not Avail crashing there. Avail FLUSH will expunge all libraries, which includes executing their expunge code. There's probably a library that's causing this.

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@PEB

hmm did u reconfigure it (go to prefs/internet and double check) ?

in your startup sequence , is the addnetworkinterface line still present? and if so...where and what does it exactly say?

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@EntilZha

Quote:

Can't help you with the ethernet problem (I'm forwarding the link to the dev list),

Thank you!


Quote:

but it's not Avail crashing there. Avail FLUSH will expunge all libraries, which includes executing their expunge code. There's probably a library that's causing this.

Ah, right... just did not think about this but it's pretty obvious indeed.
Well, then I suppose that most probably it is due to the cleanup of the eth3com.device (or something related to it), which is no longer in a sane state (as a consequence of what happened before/during/after the drop-out).

I hope to hear from you soon, guys

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@PEB

Judging by the log file's contents, it appears that the PPP device driver was unsuccessful in getting the ethernet driver to open. Exactly which eth3com.device version is this, and did you try any other version you may have had installed before?

@saimo

Thank you for the long report. I wrote the ppp-ethernet.device driver, but I didn't write the eth3com.device or the Dialer. Since you did not post any error logs generated by the ppp-ethernet.device, all I can do now is guess, and my guess is that the issue might be with eth3com.device. The ppp-ethernet.device driver shouldn't drop connections without having a good reason. Good reasons include that the other side of the connection has requested that the connection should be terminated, or that the connection itself has both been idle for a while and the mandatory tests to check whether the line is still operational have failed. These events leave traces in the log file, if a log file is written. I'd like to know more.

@PEB

Quote:

Has anyone else had trouble connecting to the internet through their DSL ethernet modems since upgrading to the third prerelease update?

I'm using a broadband ethernet modem (ADSL) which also acts as my home network router. Is this the same as a DSL modem?

No problems once I got R3 properly installed. Initial screen problems, unrelated to ASDL modem, caused by wrong firmware installed

TrevorDick

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@olsen

Quote:

I wrote the ppp-ethernet.device driver, but I didn't write the eth3com.device or the Dialer. Since you did not post any error logs generated by the ppp-ethernet.device,

Ah, right, I forgot about that!
Well, first of all, this is my NetInterface:

# DEVS:NetInterfaces/PPPoE
# File generated by Internet 50.14 (27.7.2004)
# On Thursday, 12-May-05 at 03:57:51
device=ppp-ethernet.device
hardwaretype=Ethernet

then, as for the log, I'm creating one right now (level = all), and I'm just waiting for the connection to drop


Quote:

all I can do now is guess, and my guess is that the issue might be with eth3com.device.

Yep, that's what would seem.


Quote:

The ppp-ethernet.device driver shouldn't drop connections without having a good reason. Good reasons include that the other side of the connection has requested that the connection should be terminated, or that the connection itself has both been idle for a while and the mandatory tests to check whether the line is still operational have failed. These events leave traces in the log file, if a log file is written. I'd like to know more.

It's big now (8 Mb and counting), but I guess that showing you the stuff at the top and and the bottom should be enough... right?
I'm just waiting that Mr. Murphy gives me a break ;)

[some 20 minutes later]

OK, connection dropped and left traces in the log.

The log begins with this:


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[2005-06-15 15:34:13] pp-ethernet.device 2.141 (2.5.2004) starting.
[2005-06-15 15:34:13] Setting Connect-Timeout = 5
[2005-06-15 15:34:13] Setting Send-ID = OFF
[2005-06-15 15:34:13] Opening 'eth3com.device', unit 0.
[2005-06-15 15:34:17] Broadcasting PPPoE active discovery initiation packet.
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Broadcasting PPPoE active discovery initiation packet.
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Advertized Service-Name = ''
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Access-Concentrator-Name = 'Tuira-TR1'
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Sending PPPoE active discovery request to 'Tuira-TR1' (00:09:B6:88:F3:18).
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Session opened (ID 0xFE1A).
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Link layer is ready.
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Sending Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Maximum receive unit (MRU) = 1492
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Magic number = 0x47B6CE3E
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Quality protocol = disabled
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] LCP configuration was changed since the last request was sent.
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Frame to send = 16 bytes.
0000: C02101C2 000E0104 05D40506 47B6CE3E À!.Â.....Ô..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Input frame size = 16 bytes (0x10).
0000: C02102C2 000E0104 05D40506 47B6CE3E À!.Â.....Ô..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 15:34:20] Received positive Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Input frame size = 21 bytes (0x15).
0000: C0210102 00130104 05D40305 C2230505 À!.......Ô..Â#..
0010: 06243F71 35 .$?q5
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Received Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Frame to send = 21 bytes.
0000: C0210202 00130104 05D40305 C2230505 À!.......Ô..Â#..
0010: 06243F71 35 .$?q5
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Peer's Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration acknowledged.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Maximum transmission unit (MTU) = 1492.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Peer's Authentication-Protocol = 0xC223 (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Peer's Authentication-Algorithm = 5 (MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm)
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Link Control Protocol (LCP) This-Layer-Up
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Input frame size = 32 bytes (0x20).
0000: C2230101 001E100A FDC2871B 13E6EBA6 Â#......ýÂ...æë¦
0010: 5CDF69F8 DD8B7654 75697261 2D545231 \ßiøÝ.vTuira-TR1
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Challenge handshake authentication message received from 'Tuira-TR1'; responding...

(SNIP)

[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Challenge acknowledged.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Sending Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Local IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Primary DNS address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Secondary DNS address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Source IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Destination IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] IPCP configuration was changed since the last request was sent.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Frame to send = 34 bytes.
0000: 802101E3 00200306 00000000 81060000 .!.ã. ..........
0010: 00008306 00000000 010A0000 00000000 ................
0020: 0000 ..
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Input frame size = 12 bytes (0xC).
0000: 80210101 000A0306 0A0A0903 .!..........
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Received Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Frame to send = 12 bytes.
0000: 80210201 000A0306 0A0A0903 .!..........
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Peer's Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration acknowledged.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Remote IP-Address = 10.10.9.3
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Input frame size = 34 bytes (0x22).
0000: 802103E3 00200306 D5D8F6B4 8106D432 .!.ã. ..ÕØö´..Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F7E60A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØ÷æ..
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Received negative Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Local IP-Address = 213.216.246.180
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Primary-DNS-Address = 212.50.131.153
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Secondary-DNS-Address = 213.139.190.3
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Local IP-Address = 213.216.247.230
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Sending Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Local IP address = 213.216.247.230
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Primary DNS address = 212.50.131.153
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Secondary DNS address = 213.139.190.3
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Source IP address = 213.216.247.230
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Destination IP address = 10.10.9.3
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] IPCP configuration was changed since the last request was sent.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Frame to send = 34 bytes.
0000: 802101E4 00200306 D5D8F7E6 8106D432 .!.ä. ..ÕØ÷æ..Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F7E60A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØ÷æ..
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Input frame size = 34 bytes (0x22).
0000: 802102E4 00200306 D5D8F7E6 8106D432 .!.ä. ..ÕØ÷æ..Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F7E60A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØ÷æ..
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Received positive Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) This-Layer-Up
[2005-06-15 15:34:22] Driver is now online.


***


and then the last minutes have produced this (especially here the formatting gets lost in the post: if you want, I can send you the log via email):


***


[2005-06-15 16:20:01] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C021095F 000847B6 CE3E À!._..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:01] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A5F 0008243F 7135 À!._..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:01] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A5F 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!._..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:12] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210960 000847B6 CE3E À!.`..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:12] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A60 0008243F 7135 À!.`..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:12] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A60 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.`..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:23] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210961 000847B6 CE3E À!.a..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:23] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A61 0008243F 7135 À!.a..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:23] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A61 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.a..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:26] Input frame size = 14 bytes (0xE).
0000: C0210914 000C243F 713547B6 CE3E À!....$?q5G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:26] Frame to send = 18 bytes.
0000: C0210A14 001047B6 CE3E243F 713547B6 À!....G¶Î>$?q5G¶
0010: CE3E Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:36] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210962 000847B6 CE3E À!.b..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:36] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A62 0008243F 7135 À!.b..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:36] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A62 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.b..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:47] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210963 000847B6 CE3E À!.c..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:47] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A63 0008243F 7135 À!.c..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:47] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A63 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.c..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:58] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210964 000847B6 CE3E À!.d..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:20:58] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A64 0008243F 7135 À!.d..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:20:58] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A64 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.d..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:09] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210965 000847B6 CE3E À!.e..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:09] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A65 0008243F 7135 À!.e..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:09] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A65 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.e..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:20] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210966 000847B6 CE3E À!.f..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:20] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A66 0008243F 7135 À!.f..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:20] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A66 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.f..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:27] Input frame size = 14 bytes (0xE).
0000: C0210915 000C243F 713547B6 CE3E À!....$?q5G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:27] Frame to send = 18 bytes.
0000: C0210A15 001047B6 CE3E243F 713547B6 À!....G¶Î>$?q5G¶
0010: CE3E Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:38] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210967 000847B6 CE3E À!.g..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:38] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A67 0008243F 7135 À!.g..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:38] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A67 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.g..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:49] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210968 000847B6 CE3E À!.h..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:21:49] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A68 0008243F 7135 À!.h..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:21:49] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A68 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.h..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:00] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C0210969 000847B6 CE3E À!.i..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:22:00] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A69 0008243F 7135 À!.i..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:00] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A69 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.i..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:11] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C021096A 000847B6 CE3E À!.j..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:22:11] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A6A 0008243F 7135 À!.j..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:11] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A6A 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.j..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:22] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C021096B 000847B6 CE3E À!.k..G¶Î>
[2005-06-15 16:22:22] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210A6B 0008243F 7135 À!.k..$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:22] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210A6B 000C47B6 CE3E243F 7135 À!.k..G¶Î>$?q5
[2005-06-15 16:22:24] Input frame size = 50 bytes (0x32).
0000: 00214500 0030773C 40007B06 F7F6D5D8 .!E..0w

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This is a small update to my first post in this thread.


ABOUT CONNECTING

After one day, I'd say that the failed connection attempts have disappeared on my machine: connection is brought up always at the first try
The fact that now PEB is experiencing what I had to endure before update #3 is quite weird... maybe just a settings problem?


ABOUT CRASHES

I've found out - and I should have thought about it earlier - that the crash caused by Avail can be reproduced very easily, so this is a test I recommend everybody with DSL connection tries. After the connection is established, manually disconnect and then do an Avail FLUSH: this should wake up the GrimReaper.

However, now that I don't have anymore (re-)connection problems, I'm not obliged to perform the flush after a disconnection, so I discovered that after reconnecting Avail FLUSH does _not_ cause any problem anymore: a clear indication that the crash is caused by the cleanup code of the eth3com.device (or something related to it).


Hope this helps.

saimo

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@saimo

Quote:

It's big now (8 Mb and counting), but I guess that showing you the stuff at the top and and the bottom should be enough... right?

Yes. The frame data is not of great relevance at this point, so you shouldn't have had to turn it on: it only serves to make the log file much, much bigger than it ought to be

Quote:

The second is that connection dropped because that's what the server commanded.

Thank you, I'll have to go over this with a PPP manual to see what kind of data the local PPP driver tries to send (at times I wish I had a photographic memory). My best guess is that it tries to get an LCP "echo" command through in order to verify that the line is still good. What might be of particular interest is what happened before these short packets were sent (or not sent). I hope you stored the log file in a safe place for later reference?

Quote:

I noticed also another thing: the MRU and MTU are set to 1492, whereas I have left the value (1500) that the dialer during the auto-configuration. Although I don't believe this affects anything in any way, why did auto-detection fail? Or it did not even check that?

Well spotted! The 1492 byte MTU is a peculiarity of the PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) protocol. PPPoE packages standard PPP frames in Ethernet frames, and the 8 byte difference to the maximum Ethernet MTU is due to the protocol overhead. Put another way, if the MTU weren't fixed to 1492 bytes the PPPoE negotiation wouldn't work in the first place.

@olsen

Quote:

Yes. The frame data is not of great relevance at this point, so you shouldn't have had to turn it on: it only serves to make the log file much, much bigger than it ought to be.

I'm pretty ignorant of networking and I could not know what you would need, so I went for the safest option
Anyway, what level would you recommend for future tests?


Quote:

Thank you, I'll have to go over this with a PPP manual to see what kind of data the local PPP driver tries to send (at times I wish I had a photographic memory).

That's a many men's dream


Quote:

My best guess is that it tries to get an LCP "echo" command through in order to verify that the line is still good. What might be of particular interest is what happened before these short packets were sent (or not sent). I hope you stored the log file in a safe place for later reference?

Unfortunately I have stored only the part I posted here (actually, the whole post): do you mean that the data before the disconnection is not enough? If so, I'm sorry; but anyway I can produce a brand-new log anytime (it's just a matter of waiting: in the last hour or so it happened at least 3 times).


Quote:

Well spotted! The 1492 byte MTU is a peculiarity of the PPP-over-Ethernet (PPPoE) protocol. PPPoE packages standard PPP frames in Ethernet frames, and the 8 byte difference to the maximum Ethernet MTU is due to the protocol overhead. Put another way, if the MTU weren't fixed to 1492 bytes the PPPoE negotiation wouldn't work in the first place.

So it _is_ a misconfiguration of the wizard!
BTW: pppoeconf from Linux reported the right value, so it's not an issue of miscommunication with the concentrator.


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@saimo

Quote:

I'm pretty ignorant of networking and I could not know what you would need, so I went for the safest option Anyway, what level would you recommend for future tests?

It's getting a bit late and I haven't used the Dialer in quite a while. Which options have you got for the logging?

Quote:

Unfortunately I have stored only the part I posted here (actually, the whole post): do you mean that the data before the disconnection is not enough?

Exactly: the reason why the disconnection follows might be in the data transmitted before the monotonous short packet exchange takes place.

Quote:

So it _is_ a misconfiguration of the wizard!

No, this isn't a problem. For one thing, the MTU is negotiated with the peer on the other end of the line. Then there's a "physical" limitation to how high you can crank it up to start with. For example, PPPoE simply won't work if you try to use more than 1492 bytes, which is why ppp-ethernet.device caps the maximum MTU at this number. It's a different story with asynchronous PPP over serial lines since this medium doesn't have a predefined hardware MTU to observe (PPPoE frames have to fit within the Ethernet MTU or some smart router, if not the hardware itself, will drop them on the floor). In this case, the peer will likely suggest a smaller MTU as part of the link negotiation.

@olsen

Quote:

It's getting a bit late

Definitely (I'm even 1 hour ahead)...


Quote:

and I haven't used the Dialer in quite a while. Which options have you got for the logging?

There is plenty of them

- none
- link layer events
- link control protocol events
- authentication events
- ip control protocol events
- link quality reports
- contents of incoming frame
- contents of outgoing frames
- contents of the incoming data buffer
- all


Quote:

Exactly: the reason why the disconnection follows might be in the data transmitted before the monotonous short packet exchange takes place.

OK, I'll produce another log, then.


As for the MTU stuff... well, I only got the general sense of it, but thanks for explaining


saimo

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We're lucky!
This time the connection lasted only ~2 minutes, so the crash log, even at level "all", is very short (16 kb)

Here it comes (I can sent it to you by email, but I would need your address. If you want send an email to the address shown in my profile):

[2005-06-16 00:28:10] pp-ethernet.device 2.141 (2.5.2004) starting.
[2005-06-16 00:28:10] Setting Connect-Timeout = 5
[2005-06-16 00:28:10] Setting MTU = 1492
[2005-06-16 00:28:10] Setting Send-ID = OFF
[2005-06-16 00:28:10] Opening 'eth3com.device', unit 0.
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Broadcasting PPPoE active discovery initiation packet.
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Advertized Service-Name = ''
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Access-Concentrator-Name = 'Tuira-TR1'
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Sending PPPoE active discovery request to 'Tuira-TR1' (00:09:B6:88:F3:18).
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Session opened (ID 0x2EA2).
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Link layer is ready.
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Sending Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Maximum receive unit (MRU) = 1492
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Magic number = 0x1AA2617A
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Quality protocol = disabled
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Frame to send = 16 bytes.
0000: C0210137 000E0104 05D40506 1AA2617A À!.7.....Ô...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Input frame size = 16 bytes (0x10).
0000: C0210237 000E0104 05D40506 1AA2617A À!.7.....Ô...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:14] Received positive Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Input frame size = 21 bytes (0x15).
0000: C0210102 00130104 05D40305 C2230505 À!.......Ô..Â#..
0010: 06262882 4E .&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Received Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration request.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Frame to send = 21 bytes.
0000: C0210202 00130104 05D40305 C2230505 À!.......Ô..Â#..
0010: 06262882 4E .&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Peer's Link Control Protocol (LCP) configuration acknowledged.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Maximum transmission unit (MTU) = 1492.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Peer's Authentication-Protocol = 0xC223 (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Peer's Authentication-Algorithm = 5 (MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm)
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Link Control Protocol (LCP) This-Layer-Up
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Input frame size = 32 bytes (0x20).
0000: C2230101 001E100B 93E84A4F ECB72DA6 Â#.......èJOì·-¦
0010: 5CDF69AD 4CF07D54 75697261 2D545231 \ßi­Lð}Tuira-TR1
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Challenge handshake authentication message received from 'Tuira-TR1'; responding...

[...]

[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Challenge acknowledged.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Sending Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Local IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Primary DNS address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Secondary DNS address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Source IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Destination IP address = 0.0.0.0
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Frame to send = 34 bytes.
0000: 80210114 00200306 00000000 81060000 .!... ..........
0010: 00008306 00000000 010A0000 00000000 ................
0020: 0000 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Input frame size = 12 bytes (0xC).
0000: 80210101 000A0306 0A0A0903 .!..........
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Received Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Frame to send = 12 bytes.
0000: 80210201 000A0306 0A0A0903 .!..........
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Peer's Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration acknowledged.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Remote IP-Address = 10.10.9.3
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Input frame size = 34 bytes (0x22).
0000: 80210314 00200306 D5D8F6B9 8106D432 .!... ..ÕØö¹..Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F68B0A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØö...
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Received negative Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Local IP-Address = 213.216.246.185
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Primary-DNS-Address = 212.50.131.153
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Secondary-DNS-Address = 213.139.190.3
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Local IP-Address = 213.216.246.139
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Sending Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request...
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Local IP address = 213.216.246.139
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Primary DNS address = 212.50.131.153
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Secondary DNS address = 213.139.190.3
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Source IP address = 213.216.246.139
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Destination IP address = 10.10.9.3
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] IPCP configuration was changed since the last request was sent.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Frame to send = 34 bytes.
0000: 80210115 00200306 D5D8F68B 8106D432 .!... ..ÕØö...Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F68B0A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØö...
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Input frame size = 34 bytes (0x22).
0000: 80210215 00200306 D5D8F68B 8106D432 .!... ..ÕØö...Ô2
0010: 83998306 D58BBE03 010AD5D8 F68B0A0A ....Õ.¾...ÕØö...
0020: 0903 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Received positive Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) configuration request acknowledgement.
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) This-Layer-Up
[2005-06-16 00:28:16] Driver is now online.
[2005-06-16 00:28:17] Input frame size = 14 bytes (0xE).
0000: C0210901 000C2628 824E1AA2 617A À!....&(.N.¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:17] Frame to send = 18 bytes.
0000: C0210A01 00101AA2 617A2628 824E1AA2 À!.....¢az&(.N.¢
0010: 617A az
[2005-06-16 00:28:28] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A0 00081AA2 617A À!. ...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:28] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA0 00082628 824E À!. ..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:28] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA0 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!. ...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:39] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A1 00081AA2 617A À!.¡...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:39] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA1 00082628 824E À!.¡..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:39] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA1 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¡...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:50] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A2 00081AA2 617A À!.¢...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:28:50] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA2 00082628 824E À!.¢..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:50] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA2 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¢...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:28:54] Input frame size = 370 bytes (0x172).
0000: 00214500 01700000 40002311 AE113D98 .!E..p..@.#.®.=.
0010: 9E6FD5D8 F68BC5A6 0403015C 5DE50400 .oÕØö.Ŧ...\]å..
0020: 28001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 (...............
0030: 00000000 0000F891 7B5A00FF D011A9B2 ......ø.{Z.ÿÐ.©²
0040: 00C04FB6 E6FCD0FA 5CDE868D F8634802 .ÀO¶æüÐú\Þ..øcH.
0050: 18F2B8F6 C4BA0000 00000100 00000000 .ò¸öĺ..........
0060: 00000000 FFFFFFFF 04010000 00001000 ....ÿÿÿÿ........
0070: 00000000 00001000 00005359 5354454D ..........SYSTEM
0080: 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 ................
0090: 00001000 0000414C 45525400 00000000 ......ALERT.....
00A0: 00000000 0000C000 00000000 0000C000 ......À.......À.
00B0: 0000496E 7465726E 616C2045 72726F72 ..Internal Error
00C0: 20656E63 6F756E74 65726564 210A596F encountered!.Yo
00D0: 75722057 696E646F 77732072 65676973 ur Windows regis
00E0: 74727920 6D617920 62652063 6F727275 try may be corru
00F0: 70742E0A 596F7520 73686F75 6C642070 pt..You should p
0100: 6572666F 726D2061 6E20696D 6D656469 erform an immedi
0110: 61746520 73797374 656D2073 63616E0A ate system scan.
0120: 746F2070 72657665 6E742066 696C6573 to prevent files
0130: 20616E64 20646174 61206672 6F6D2062 and data from b
0140: 65696E67 2064616D 61676564 2E0A0A56 eing damaged...V
0150: 69736974 20777777 2E706372 65676669 isit www.pcregfi
0160: 782E636F 6D20746F 20726570 6169722E x.com to repair.
0170: 0A00 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:54] Frame to send = 58 bytes.
0000: 00214500 0038C77D 4000FF01 0BDBD5D8 .!E..8Ç}@.ÿ..ÛÕØ
0010: F68B3D98 9E6F0303 E01C0000 00004500 ö.=..o..à.....E.
0020: 015C0000 40002311 00003D98 9E6FD5D8 .\..@.#...=..oÕØ
0030: F68BC5A6 0403015C 0000 ö.Ŧ...\..
[2005-06-16 00:28:54] Input frame size = 370 bytes (0x172).
0000: 00214500 01700000 40002611 AB113D98 .!E..p..@.&.«.=.
0010: 9E6FD5D8 F68BC5A6 0402015C 5DE60400 .oÕØö.Ŧ...\]æ..
0020: 28001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 (...............
0030: 00000000 0000F891 7B5A00FF D011A9B2 ......ø.{Z.ÿÐ.©²
0040: 00C04FB6 E6FCD0FA 5CDE868D F8634802 .ÀO¶æüÐú\Þ..øcH.
0050: 18F2B8F6 C4BA0000 00000100 00000000 .ò¸öĺ..........
0060: 00000000 FFFFFFFF 04010000 00001000 ....ÿÿÿÿ........
0070: 00000000 00001000 00005359 5354454D ..........SYSTEM
0080: 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 ................
0090: 00001000 0000414C 45525400 00000000 ......ALERT.....
00A0: 00000000 0000C000 00000000 0000C000 ......À.......À.
00B0: 0000496E 7465726E 616C2045 72726F72 ..Internal Error
00C0: 20656E63 6F756E74 65726564 210A596F encountered!.Yo
00D0: 75722057 696E646F 77732072 65676973 ur Windows regis
00E0: 74727920 6D617920 62652063 6F727275 try may be corru
00F0: 70742E0A 596F7520 73686F75 6C642070 pt..You should p
0100: 6572666F 726D2061 6E20696D 6D656469 erform an immedi
0110: 61746520 73797374 656D2073 63616E0A ate system scan.
0120: 746F2070 72657665 6E742066 696C6573 to prevent files
0130: 20616E64 20646174 61206672 6F6D2062 and data from b
0140: 65696E67 2064616D 61676564 2E0A0A56 eing damaged...V
0150: 69736974 20777777 2E706372 65676669 isit www.pcregfi
0160: 782E636F 6D20746F 20726570 6169722E x.com to repair.
0170: 0A00 ..
[2005-06-16 00:28:54] Frame to send = 58 bytes.
0000: 00214500 0038C77E 4000FF01 0BDAD5D8 .!E..8Ç~@.ÿ..ÚÕØ
0010: F68B3D98 9E6F0303 DD1D0000 00004500 ö.=..o..Ý.....E.
0020: 015C0000 40002611 00003D98 9E6FD5D8 .\..@.&...=..oÕØ
0030: F68BC5A6 0402015C 0000 ö.Ŧ...\..
[2005-06-16 00:29:05] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A3 00081AA2 617A À!.£...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:29:05] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA3 00082628 824E À!.£..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:05] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA3 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.£...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:16] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A4 00081AA2 617A À!.¤...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:29:16] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA4 00082628 824E À!.¤..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:16] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA4 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¤...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:27] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A5 00081AA2 617A À!.¥...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:29:27] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA5 00082628 824E À!.¥..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:27] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA5 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¥...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:38] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A6 00081AA2 617A À!.¦...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:29:38] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA6 00082628 824E À!.¦..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:38] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA6 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¦...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:49] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A7 00081AA2 617A À!.§...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:29:49] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA7 00082628 824E À!.§..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:29:49] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA7 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.§...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:30:00] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A8 00081AA2 617A À!.¨...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:30:00] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA8 00082628 824E À!.¨..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:30:00] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA8 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.¨...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:30:11] Frame to send = 10 bytes.
0000: C02109A9 00081AA2 617A À!.©...¢az
[2005-06-16 00:30:11] Input frame size = 10 bytes (0xA).
0000: C0210AA9 00082628 824E À!.©..&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:30:11] Frame to send = 14 bytes.
0000: C0210AA9 000C1AA2 617A2628 824E À!.©...¢az&(.N
[2005-06-16 00:30:19] Input frame size = 14 bytes (0xE).
0000: C0210902 000C2628 824E1AA2 617A À!....&(.N.¢az
[2005-06-16 00:30:19] Frame to send = 18 bytes.
0000: C0210A02 00101AA2 617A2628 824E1AA2 À!.....¢az&(.N.¢
0010: 617A az
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Server has closed session.
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Shutting down Link Control Protocol (LCP).
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Link Control Protocol (LCP) This-Layer-Down
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Internet Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) This-Layer-Down
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Closing Link Control Protocol (LCP).
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Link Control Protocol (LCP) This-Layer-Finished
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Driver is now offline.
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Closing link layer...
[2005-06-16 00:30:28] Sending PPPoE active discovery terminate request.
[2005-06-16 00:30:29] Maximum number of read requests in use at a time = 2.
[2005-06-16 00:30:29] Link layer is closed (total connection time 0:02:15h).
[2005-06-16 00:30:29] Link Control Protocol (LCP) closed.


NOTE: I established the connection and then let the machine alone, waiting for connection to drop.


saimo

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