Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 21:37:42 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: gkaplan <gkaplan@castle.net> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -> browser Message-ID: <199903042137.VAA01076@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:31:31 EST." <36DEDF93.EF0E794E@castle.net>
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Hi, Have another look at the FAQ at http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/userppp.html It describes what FCS errors are. Assuming your modem does error checking, you may have a badly shielded serial cable... > My last attempt to connect to my isp using ppp through telnet produced the following > result: > signon is complete switched to packet mode > some part of the shell menu that I expect to see after login is received and > displayed locally > ping when executed does not appear to show any anomaly > the file /var/log/ppp.log shows many entries of the form: > Mar dd hh:mm:ss myname ppp[xxx] : Phase: deflink: HDLC error -> FCS nn, ADDR:0 COMD: > 0, PROTO: 0 > ---------------------------------- > could this be the result of a fault in the modem setup? -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <brian@OpenBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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