Re: pppd handling of ms-wins

[Marcus Better <marcus@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Jiri Kosina skrev:
> there are situations out there, in which pppd is not able to handle 
> ms-wins negotiation with certain UMTS/HSDPA/.... modems properly. More can 
> be seen on [1] and [2], including the discussion patch which fixes the 
> issue.

Yes, at the moment my OpenWRT router with a Huawei E220 USB modem
invariably fails on the first connection attempt after boot, but not on
subsequent attempts.

> Was there any discussion about the patch being rejected, or has it just 
> never been submitted properly to maintainers?

The latter.

I've had some feedback on the patch from a couple of users, it worked
for them as well and nobody has reported problems with it.

Cheers,

Marcus

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