From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 29 10:56:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05286 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA05095 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:55:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA24559; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:53:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA19124; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:31:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199809291431.PAA19124@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: dmaddox@scsn.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd Message from PPP In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 18:14:34 -0000." <19980928181434.A551@scsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:31:01 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On rare occasions I see the following message from ppp: > > Sep 28 17:56:03 rhiannon ppp[219]: tun0: Warning: Unrecognised CBCP packet (code > 5, length 4) > > I guess it's not a problem (hasn't caused any noticable trouble so far), > but I'm curious as to what it means }:-| According to the M$ specs, there are only three valid CBCP codes, REQ, RESPONSE & ACK (1, 2 & 3). If ppp gets something outside of this range, it moans with the above message and drops it on the floor. Is the other side a M$ OS ? (guffaw, guffaw!). It may be worth taking it up with the remote admin.... > Anybody know what this is? This is with ppp from an all-ELF -current > system on a 3Com ImpactIQ ISDN TA, FWIW... -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message