Re: ppp questions.
tony mollica writes:
> First, in the messages there is a notice that says 'Cannot determine
> ethernet address for Proxy ARP'. I'm somewhat unclear as to what this
> means to the status of my connection,
Nothing. It is an advisory notice which is irrelevant in your case. If it
bothers you put 'noproxyarp' in /etc/ppp/peers/provider.
> Second, there seems to be many more 'errors:' and 'dropped:' in the RX
> packets row using ifconfig. My old Debian 1.3.1 had almost no errors,
> but the new Debian 2.0 collects many more errors: and dropped: . The
> errors seems to occur about every 55-60 packets received.
You've got a new version of pppd, but that should make no difference. What
kernel are you running?
> Have I misconfigured something?
I don't think so.
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