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Subject: Re: Anyway to get connect speed with usermode ppp/tun0 device? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:17:43 +0930."
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 01:55:59 +0100
From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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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.

Did you have LQM on at the time ?  Or did you try pinging your 
gateway address ?  What was the throughput like ?

You may have got a crossed line or something.

> Greg
> 

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