Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-04 Thread Edward Kear
At 03:33 PM 3/2/00 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume. I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this. I had a similar problem a couple of months

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-03 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume. > > I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same > ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this. > > Last night I recompiled the kernel (a potato system, I had

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-02 Thread fairfax
"...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume. I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this. Last night I recompiled the kernel (a potato system, I had been using the default 2.2.14 ker

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs

2000-03-01 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
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 m

Re: ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 5ebe

1999-04-24 Thread John Hasler
Jim Foltz writes: > Does anyone have a clue what this error message means? > ppp: frame with bad fcs, excess = 5ebe It just means a bit got dropped somewhere. Ignore it unless it happens frequently. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED]