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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 19:19:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Jeffrey Auerbach <jauerbac@jauerbac.dialup.access.net>
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On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Jeffrey Auerbach wrote:

> I am curious about the two HDLC error that i was getting at various 
> points of my ppp connection(s) recently.  I have looked for the cause but 
> I cant find any answers.  What is and how are these errors caused?  Can 
> you point me in a direction to actually preventing these errors from 
> occuring?

If they are non-fatal, then I would say that they are just 'line noise'
and forget them.  On my OS/2 box I get FCS errors every so often over the
wireles modem; I suspect just plain noise.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major