fcs is Frame Check Sequence. PPP over an async link uses HDLC-like framing for each packet. The FCS is used to detect errors in packets which are received. Such an error could happen on a link which is not error-corrected. On a link which is error-corrected this probably indicates something is munging bytes on the way through. This could happen because of things like software flow-control, which inserts XON/XOFF bytes into the stream to tell the other side to stop sending data. Make sure your modem is configured to only do hardware flow control.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having trouble recieving files via PPP from certain sites. I checked > the debugging log, and I am repeatedly getting a two-line error message from > those sites: > > kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, length = 994 > kernel: ppp: bad frame, count = 994 > > Can anyone tell me what this means? > > It seems that my PPP connection receives a bad frame, and keeps requesting > that same frame over and over again (I get the same message repeated > throughout the log). > > Thanks, > > Steve Martin -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
