Re: strangeness in ppp
Eric Schenk (schenk@cs.toronto.edu)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 15:27:27 -0400
Jauder Ho <jauderho@umich.edu> writes:
>
> every since the late 1.3.8x kernels, whenever I run ppp I get
>doubled messages when it shows the remote and local ip address such as
>
>Apr 23 05:20:42 turtle pppd[1544]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua1
>Apr 23 05:20:45 turtle pppd[1544]: local IP address 141.211.4.35
>Apr 23 05:20:45 turtle pppd[1544]: remote IP address 141.211.4.7
>Apr 23 05:20:48 turtle pppd[1544]: local IP address 141.211.4.35
>Apr 23 05:20:48 turtle pppd[1544]: remote IP address 141.211.4.7
>
>This isn't like a HUGE bug but I would like to know why this is
>happening... In addition I have IP accounting turned on to use with the
>new xosview which relies on IP account to show network traffic
This is a bug in the PPP implementation on your providers side.
Your PPP is offering to use a compression protocol, and the remote
PPP implementation is getting very confused by this. Do the following:
(1) get ppp-2.2.0f from sunsite, compile and install.
(2) make sure you do NOT load the bsd_comp module.
The newer release of pppd won't offer compression if the bsd_comp module
is not loaded. This should fix your problem.
Cheers,
-- eric
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