From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 13:53:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8323414F32 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 13:53:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (keep.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.8]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA34216; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:38:08 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by keep.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01076; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 21:37:42 GMT (envelope-from brian@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199903042137.VAA01076@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: gkaplan Cc: Brian Somers , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp -> browser In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:31:31 EST." <36DEDF93.EF0E794E@castle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 21:37:42 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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