Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 10:17:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, 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: <19970904101743.28980@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199709040046.BAA17334@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>; from Brian Somers on Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 01:46:11AM %2B0100 References: <19970904084024.29000@lemis.com> <199709040046.BAA17334@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, Sep 04, 1997 at 01:46:11AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > [.....] >> 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. > > Sounds like the peer stopped responding :-( No, I had a connection all the time. I was just getting a lot of FCS errors. Greg
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