From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 14:46:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA08222 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:46:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA08216 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:45:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id PAA18860; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:45:24 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199702262245.PAA18860@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: your mail To: ianw@angel.comcen.com.au (ian wynne) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:45:24 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199702250906.UAA16979@angel.comcen.com.au> from "ian wynne" at Feb 25, 97 08:06:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've fetched the rfc on ppp and the FCS stands for Frame Check Sum, so I'm > check sum errors. I've turned on all the logging I can, and these errors > occur when udp packets are being passed backwards and forward. I think this > is then supposed to lead to the machines changing to tcp/ip mode. FCS stands for "frame check sequence" which is *not* a checksum, it is the sequence of characters used to simulate a data frame over an asynchronous link like a modem. If you are getting FCS errors on dial-up PPP, you are having basic communications problems with your modem link. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com