ppp really working rock solid in 2.0.x for everybody?

Jens Lautenbacher (jens@tellux.de)
18 Oct 1998 20:21:28 +0200


Hi,

I have the some problems with ppp. I use the 2.0.x kernel series, and
the problem happens since a longer time than i can think back (I
didn't ask about it earlier as my old (server) machine had serious memory
hardware probs, and i accounted this for every problem that apeared)

When I run ppp, suddenly, after random times, ppp stops working (I
don't get any packet over the link anymore) and lots of the following
is logged into the messages file:

Oct 11 14:07:29 schoenberg kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = d65f

with intermediate lines of:

Oct 11 14:07:29 schoenberg kernel: ppp: got runt ppp frame, 3 chars

this happens with different modems. The server machine doesn't log
anything (except that the connection is closed when I finally kill the
whole thing at home).

Of course this may be a configuration problem on the server/client,
but I don't understand what the error message means...

Any ideas what can be wrong?

thanks a lot,

jtl

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