What does it mean: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol

[Francois Gouget <fgouget@free.fr>]

   Hi,

   I get a lot of these messages in my ppp.log file (more than two
dozens per day, no particular timing pattern):

Jan  8 18:27:48 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2069
Jan  8 18:27:48 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2020
Jan  8 18:43:08 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x2020
Jan  8 18:50:04 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x5441
Jan  9 00:36:03 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x666f
Jan  9 00:36:35 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x666f
Jan  9 10:49:37 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x983d
Jan  9 15:13:45 amboise pppd[712]: Protocol-Reject for unsupported protocol 0x9f36


   I have a DSL and I'm using PPPoE. Can anyone tell me what the above
messages mean? And why do I'm getting them? Is my configuration wrong or
is it someone trying to probe my computer in some way? Or yet something
else?

pppoe: 1.7-1
pppd:  2.4.0f-1


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