Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:00:09 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: 320096206837-0001@t-online.de (Dermot McNally) Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPPoE connection almost working Message-ID: <200002072300.XAA03978@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from 320096206837-0001@t-online.de (Dermot McNally) of "Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:43:21 %2B0100." <4.2.0.58.20000207232329.00b06178@tim>
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> I can now report success. I updated to current and it Just Worked. I must
> admit to being very pleasantly surprised - I expected at least one nasty
> hurdle, and was preparing to dissect the output of tcpdump when I realised
> there was a lot more of it than there had been before. I looked at ppp and
> noticed that the link was alive. You can't complain, can you?
Excellent ! I *didn't* expect that :-)
> Anyway, well done to Julian and Brian for the code that does all this.
> You've done a phenomenal job. The link comes up in a fraction of a second
> (which is important, since Deutsche Telekom doesn't offer an always-on
> connection at decent rates) and I've done a test download at 87 K-bytes/s,
> pretty much on the edge of the claimed bandwidth of my pipe.
>
> One further question - with reference to the ppp log below, is it normal
> that I should have all those LCP entries? They keep repeating as long as
> the link is up. I can just stop logging them, of course, but is there
> something else I should tweak instead?
Hmm, I think I'll move them to the lqm log level. They're strictly
LCP, but they're also pretty annoying for someone that wants to see
what link characteristics were negotiated....
TODO list !
> Thanks again,
> Dermot
It's worth it when you get emails from people saying they're happy :-)
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