"...something munging bytes on the way through," is what I assume.
I can load the same pages on my Win95 laptop with no problem with the same ISP, so it appears to be Linux somehow that is doing this. Last night I recompiled the kernel (a potato system, I had been using the default 2.2.14 kernel), and this seems to have relieved the problem somewhat -- stuff downloads very slowly from the problem sites, but I don't get the timeouts that I was getting. No error messages are now evident. Maybe I need to examine the packets that are getting sent over to me? > fcs is Frame Check Sequence. PPP over an async link uses HDLC-like framing > for each packet. The FCS is used to detect errors in packets which are > received. Such an > error could happen on a link which is not error-corrected. On a link which is > error-corrected this probably indicates something is munging bytes on the way > through. > This could happen because of things like software flow-control, which inserts > XON/XOFF bytes into the stream to tell the other side to stop sending data. > Make sure your > modem is configured to only do hardware flow control. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am having trouble recieving files via PPP from certain sites. I checked > > the debugging log, and I am repeatedly getting a two-line error message > > from those sites: > > > > kernel: ppp: frame with bad fcs, length = 994 > > kernel: ppp: bad frame, count = 994 > > > > Can anyone tell me what this means? > > > > It seems that my PPP connection receives a bad frame, and keeps requesting > > that same frame over and over again (I get the same message repeated > > throughout the log). > > > > Thanks, > > > > Steve Martin > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
