Alarm A: This is not a problem. It means that a timer has expiredand timers are a necessary part of the protocol establishment phase.Unknown protocol (c025) received!. A: The remote wishes to exchange Link Quality Reportingprotocol with the Linux system. This protocol is presently notsupported. This is not an error. It is merely saying that it hasreceived the request and will tell the remote that "I can't do thisnow. Don't bother me with this!"The Morning Star PPP package will always try to do LQR protocol. This is normal.
ioctl(TIOCSCTTY) error. A: Use the ppp-2.1.2b.tar.gz package. This was abug which was not caught before the `a' package was released.ioctl(PPPIOCGDEBUG): I/O error", "ioctl(TIOCSETD): I/O error" and "ioctl(TIOCNXCL): I/O error"A: The remote system has disconnected the telephone. The ttydrivers will re-establish the proper tty discipline and these errorsare the result of the pppd process trying to do the samething. These are to be expected.ifconfig has strange output for PPP. Usually the ifconfig program reports information similar to thefollowing:
ppp0 Link encap UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00 ...
inet addr 192.76.32.2 P-t-P 129.67.1.65 Mask 255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU 1500 Metric 1
A: The information is for display purposes only. If you
are using a recent 1.1 kernel then update the nettools package with
the current one on sunacm.swan.ac.uk in the directory
/pub/Linux/networking/nettools.
/proc/net/dev seems to be empty A: Did you just issue the command "ls -l /proc/net"
and are wondering why the size is zero? If so, this is normal.
Instead, issue the command:
cat /proc/net/dev
You should not find the file empty. The size is always shown as zero, but that is the 'proc' file system. Don't believe the size. Do the command.
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