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Date:      Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Robert L. Bailey" <rlb@cs.umb.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP Question 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960417105530.5027G-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960416230620.22331B-100000@eris.cs.umb.edu>

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On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, Robert L. Bailey wrote:

> I just compiled PPP into my kernel (FreeBSD 2.1.0-R) and there seems 
> to be a problem with the protocol.  Whenever I start PPP on the client
> side I recieve an error message which states the following:
> 
> pppd: 2.1.2 started by root, uid 0
> pppd: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cuaa0
> pppd: input: Unknown protocol (80fd) recieved!
> 
> It then connects without further problems.
> 
> Under Linux the Unknown protocol (80fd) can be corrected by
> loading the bsd_comp.o module: it's a ppp compression module.
> Is there an means of loading compression under FreeBSD?

I get that protocol error on my OS/2 box.  It's of no concern.  

You may want to try enabling VJ compression (but don't ask me how).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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