From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 11:00:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA23297 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:00:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA23290 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 11:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA05354; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:56:22 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 10:56:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Robert L. Bailey" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPP Question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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