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- From: tkies@tam2000.tamu.edu (Timothy Wayne Kieschnick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: PPP high error rates !!!
- Date: 10 Feb 1996 00:23:39 GMT
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx
- Message-ID: <4fgoib$nrb@news.tamu.edu>
- References: <tcelaDM742L.73y@netcom.com> <4favqm$brr@news.tamu.edu>
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- Keywords: usr sportster ppp errors
-
- In article <4favqm$brr@news.tamu.edu>,
- Tim Kieschnick <tkies@educ.tamu.edu> wrote:
- >In article <tcelaDM742L.73y@netcom.com>,
- >Thomson Consumer Electronic <bok@bok.net> wrote:
- >>The errors reported by ifconfig worry me :
- >>
- >>ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
- >> inet addr:206.24.116.33 P-t-P:206.24.112.2 Mask:255.255.255.0
- >> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
- >> RX packets:6596 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0
- >> TX packets:8092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
- >Me too...
-
- I've fixed these by using the hdparm utility to turn on unmasking of
- IDE interupts. The errors disappeared.
-
- >However, I can plug a Supra 28.8 in and change the init from at&f1 to
- >at&f2 (to keep hardware flow control) and no problems!
-
- I still don't understand how this is happening.
-
- ---
- Tim Kieschnick
- timk@tamu.edu
-
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