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Date:      Thu, 10 Aug 1995 12:56:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
To:        gary@palmer.demon.co.uk (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iijppp
Message-ID:  <199508101956.MAA03731@bubba.tribe.com>
In-Reply-To: <962.808005644@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Aug 9, 95 11:00:44 pm

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> I've been using IIJPPP more and more and I'm sometimes seeing the
> following in the log file, and I'm just wondering what on earth it
> means!
> 
> 08-09 21:57:38 [107] HDLC errros -> FCS: 1 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0

"FCS" stands for "frame check sequence", which is a CRC hash of the
packet (or header or whatever).

This message seems to mean that there was a bit-error or two sometime,
and the driver caught it, which is what it's supposed to do.

-Archie




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