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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>,
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Subject: Re: Anyway to get connect speed with usermode ppp/tun0 device?
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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