From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 9:28:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from istar.ca (d141-119-162.home.cgocable.net [24.141.119.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2002337B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 09:28:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: (from genisis@localhost) by istar.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2IHUvG02050; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:30:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from genisis) Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:30:57 -0500 (EST) From: Dru X-Sender: genisis@x1-6-00-50-ba-de-36-33.kico1.on.home.com To: Eugene Tooms Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: msg in /var/log/ppp.log Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Eugene, PPP is actually comprised of 3 components: -HDLC encapsulates your IP packets into frames so they can go over the link -LCP establishes, configures, and tests the connection -NCP allows you to send different type of packets e.g. IP packets, IPX packets, etc. You might find this article interesting: http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/ppp.htm Cheers, Dru On Sun, 18 Mar 2001, Eugene Tooms wrote: > hi, I would like to know why this msg appers in /var/log/ppp.log: > Mar 18 07:05:29 nietzsche ppp[279]: tun0: Phase: deflink: HDLC errors -> > FCS: 8, ADDR: 0, COMD: 0, PROTO: 0 > > I'm using a ppp connection to my isp, why the msg refers to hdlc? > > thanks for comment, ppp is working fine, i'm just curiuos... > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message