From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 00:52:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA26873 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA26848 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 00:52:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA25750; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:51:36 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA09082; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:51:36 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id JAA02812; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:50:24 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601170850.JAA02812@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Yet another PPP question To: tomg@fourthgen.com (Tom Greenwalt) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:50:23 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601170252.UAA03134@fourthgen.com> from "Tom Greenwalt" at Jan 16, 96 08:52:23 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tom Greenwalt wrote: > > 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! > What's the "Unknown protocol" mean? The connection doesn't seem very stable Microsoft proprietary compression protocols. They are negotiated, and therefore not being used during this session. > 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. The "Unknown protcol" shouldn't hurt, if negotiation fails, it's simply turned off. I'd say the other M$ program is plain buggy. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)