Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Brian May wrote:
bam >Still, I thought PPP was meant to be able to handle errors internally?
bam >I think the statistics above mention the number of packet errors
bam >that need to be fixed by TCP retransmitting it, but please correct
bam >me if I am wrong.
those are packet errors, the modem connection protocol V42BIS (?) will
attempt internal error correction when possible..i dont know of any way to
view those stats. when i used NT(before i saw the light) a few years back
the DUN there had modem stats: CRC, Timeout, Alignment, Framing, Hardware
overruns, buffer overruns.
bam >Thats what I was doing (apana.org.au isn't a ISP in the usual sense, is
bam >based on work provided by volunteers, and has mirrors of Debian).
ok
bam >Thanks for the URL - will try that latter. Have found some documentation
bam >on a supplied disk for now, seems OK, but were some errors on the disk
bam >:-(.
doh! ok
nate
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