Re: ppp Questions.
On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Petra <Kevin J Poorman> wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
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> > On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra <Kevin J Poorman> wrote:
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> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to
> > > work, VS, my old one line script that was broken by the ppp. Now when i
> > > dial my isp I find these messages in my syslog:
> > > Apr 13 19:22:30 petra pppd[11431]: local IP address 209.113.53.194
> > > Apr 13 19:22:30 petra pppd[11431]: remote IP address 209.113.55.254
> > > Apr 13 19:23:00 petra pppd[11431]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x7df7]
> > > Apr 13 19:23:00 petra pppd[11431]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x0]
> > > Apr 13 19:23:30 petra pppd[11431]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x7df7]
> > > Apr 13 19:23:30 petra pppd[11431]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x0]
> > >
> > > Could anyone tell me what this means?...
> >
> > This means that you have the official IP adress 209.113.53.194. At this
> > time, people could try to telnet your machine from anywhere in the internet.
> > This adress is a dynamically assigned valid IP adress. So, if you have
> > apache web server installed, people could even point netscape at
> > http://209.113.53.194, and see your locally installed web pages ;)
> >
> > You connected to host 209.113.55.254, which is the server that you diald-in.
> >
>
> I knew about the IP stuff what I was wondering was wether or not this
> stuff: Apr 13 19:23:00 petra pppd[11431]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1
> magic=0x7df7] was healthy, and by the way it INVAIDS my syslog, but
> flooding it, I couldn't see how it could be heathly... so I thought I
> would ask about how to "fix" it, meaning how to get pppd to stop flooding
> my syslog, with information I can't make heads or tails of.... Guess I
> shouldn't e-mail past midnight, I lose mental corodonation, and prowess.
>
> > The next four lines just give information about transferred packages.
>
ok
> What do you mean by transferd packages?
This are logs about ip packets send. They tell you that pppd is still up and running ;)
You can switch it off by removing the debug option.
Where this is st depends on your version of pppd. In newer version
the file is /etc/ppp/peers/provider or the appropriate file in
the same directory. In older version you can try "grep option /etc/ppp/*"
to check what files have this option set.
Sorry for this strange reply, I´m writing over a telnet from windows
in vi :-/
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> >
> > > How to fix it?... also is there a
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> > Nothing wrong here. I think you can remove "debug" from your ppp config
> > file. I don't know how much less verbose ppp would get then...
>
> Ah, so thats what it is... Debug information, in what config file would I
> find the debug line in order to remove it?
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> >
> > > way to get ppp to tell me how fast it has conected to my ISP at?...
> >
> > Sorry, don't remember. Probably I never knew ;)
>
> Well another kind Debian Developer (Thanks John) said this:
>
> Add a REPORT string to /etc/chatscripts/provider, like this:
>
> REPORT CONNECT
>
> And tell chat where to put the report string by giving it the '-r' option
> in /etc/ppp/peers/provider, like this:
>
> connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -r /etc/ppp/report -f
> /etc/chatscripts/provider"
> Now just read /etc/ppp/report to see everything that the modem reported
> when it connected.
Thank you for this useful information!
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>
> - -K
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