-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra <Kevin J Poorman> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > 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. What do you mean by transferd packages? > > > How to fix it?... also is there a > > 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? > > > 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. - -K -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNTQEzxsA5GylAiwdAQHUXQL+LWopAFjNomJ/noAAXZ7TZSaRR0WSmN4w EyKBD7K4PlqjNc+pQAlgc5UosApad1RkbDRhEAsTCf3BPn+IG9dt0H8taDZhwuKh 1k7NcuNxd621ktu4ZaJv/D8ePyTaBnHr =IBIS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
