Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:40:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyway to get connect speed with usermode ppp/tun0 device? Message-ID: <19970904084024.29000@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709031656.KAA27641@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 10:56:05AM -0600 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970902223809.9029U-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> <199709030659.QAA00291@word.smith.net.au> <199709031656.KAA27641@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 1997 at 10:56:05AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: >>> No, the CONNECT string from when ppp parses up the output of the CHAT >>> script... ie, connect 31200, v.34/ARQ, etc. >> >> Why do you want this number? It is fundamentally useless in a modern >> modem environment. Consider retrain operations, fallback/fall-forward, >> line hit density etc. > > Most 'cheaper' modems don't fall-forward (which includes about 99% of > the modems in use today by folks), and it's far from useless. It gives > you a pretty good 'guess' at how good the line quality is from you to > the other side at connection time. With this information in hand, you > can point to the customer and say "it ain't my problem your connection > sucks so badly, it's the phone company's problem". How well do modems handle fallback? If you're running PPP with LQM, that should give you a pretty reliable indication as well. I'm running a no-name Rockwell V.34 modem here, and my line quality seems to be pretty good, but on one occasion I got a whole lot of: Aug 3 17:31:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 89 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:32:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 17 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:33:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 35 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:34:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 59 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:35:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 8 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:36:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 14 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:37:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 38 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Aug 3 17:38:05 freebie ppp[196]: Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 66 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 Note that these are errors per minute. They went away when I redialled. Greg
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