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- From: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk (Henrik Dissing)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Many errors when FTP:ing over PPP
- Date: 21 Jan 96 14:26:20 +0100
- Organization: DanaData Internet Services
- Message-ID: <2621.6594T866T1031@aix1.danadata.dk>
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- On 18-Jan-96 20:41:42, Gene Heskett wrote:
-
- > Stefan, I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing here, but I
- > just did a pppstats 0 after grabbing my mail and 2 files from St. Louis.
- > I have 32 checksum errors logged so far, and that is about typical for that
- > amount of data, 48 mails, and 135 news plus 150k of data in files.
-
- > I thought maybe the new ppp 1.38 thats out for beta might fix some of it,
- > it did seem to crank up the speed a bit. HOWEVER, at least using dialup, it
- > can't hang up the modem without crashing the system. 3 times I asked it to
- > hang up, 3 times it sent a bit of data to the modem, and 3 times it
- > crashed. Thats enough for me, so I'm back to my registered 1.30.
-
- > I have made the remark to my isp (both of them) that one of us doesn't
- > know how to calc checksums. I get just as many errors on a local line as
- > this quasi long distance. I can't believe the error rates would so closely
- > match from 2 different isp's and 3 different locations. Take the remark
- > about crc's for what its worth, which may be nothing.
-
- Have you read this section in PPP.guide?
-
- --
- Ignore incoming checksums
- =========================
-
- IGNOREFCS
-
- tells PPP to ignore the checksums of incoming PPP packets after PPP
- has been configured and has come online.
-
- Normally PPP silently rejects all packets that have a bad checksum
- (and relies on TCP-retries), as required by PPP specifications. However
- some PPP terminal servers sometimes calculate incorrect checksums. The
- option "IGNOREFCS" can be used to circumvent this bug.
-
- Note that "IGNOREFCS" only becomes active after PPP has come online,
- i.e. during the PPP configuration all checksums are always checked.
- This is necessary to make sure that garbage left in the serial device
- buffer is not incorrectly interpreted as a PPP packet.
-
- Warning: You should only use this option on error-corrected (V.42 or
- MNP) lines, and only if "PPPStats" shows you that you get many checksum
- errors. This option is meant as a workaround for bugs in some terminal
- servers (apparently some Annex models), NOT as a means to increase
- performance in any way.
- --
-
- My ISP does run the mentioned Annex software, and I did receive about
- 20% packets with bad checksums. After I set the IGNOREFCS flag, which I
- did the day before yesterday, my POP mail transfers seem significantly
- faster, but I haven't got data enough to conclude anything yet.
-
- Note that IGNOREFCS only works in the registered version.
-
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- Henrik Dissing E-mail: hendis@aix1.danadata.dk
- Tranbjerg, Denmark FidoNet: 2:238/24.6
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