From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 18:46:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08077 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:46:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from fourthgen.com (fourthgen.fourthgen.com [199.199.125.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08069 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.fourthgen.com (vr2.fourthgen.com [204.246.82.5]) by fourthgen.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA03134 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:52:23 -0600 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 20:52:23 -0600 Message-Id: <199601170252.UAA03134@fourthgen.com> X-Sender: tomg@fourthgen.fourthgen.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: hackers@freebsd.org From: Tom Greenwalt Subject: Yet another PPP question Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk When users dialin and connect using the Windows 95 PPP client I see the following messages: Jan 16 20:38:22 fourthgen pppd[2916]: pppd 2.1.2 started by tomg, uid 1000 Jan 16 20:38:22 fourthgen pppd[2916]: Connect: ppp1 <--> /dev/ttyd3 Jan 16 20:38:25 fourthgen pppd[2916]: input: Unknown protocol (802b) received! Jan 16 20:38:25 fourthgen pppd[2916]: input: Unknown protocol (803f) received! Jan 16 20:38:28 fourthgen pppd[2916]: local IP address 204.246.82.8 Jan 16 20:38:28 fourthgen pppd[2916]: remote IP address 204.246.82.11 What's the "Unknown protocol" mean? The connection doesn't seem very stable and users have a tendency to be kicked off the system unexpectedly. If they connect using TCPMAN there is no "Unknown protocol" messages and everything seems to work ok. Thanks. -- Tom Greenwalt (Tom-Too) (F.O.E.) tomg@fourthgen.com 7300 Nicollet Ave. S. mishima@winternet.com Richfield, MN 55423-3121 tomg@mishima.mn.org * In doing good, avoid notoriety; in doing evil, avoid self-awareness. *