On Sat, 27 Feb 1999, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > I'm having this problem for quite some time. I keep on seeing this > message about "LCP EchoReq" on /var/log: > Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4e > magic=0x30c5fb97] > Feb 26 06:35:12 localhost pppd[23168]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4e > magic=0x91dc4c0d] > Feb 26 06:35:42 localhost pppd[23168]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4f > magic=0x30c5fb97] > Feb 26 06:35:42 localhost pppd[23168]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4f > magic=0x91dc4c0d]
<many similar entries deleted> > As you see, it happens once every minute. > Is this a problem? How can I make it stop? It is not a problem. It is caused by the ppd on your end checking to make sure the other end is still alive. I used to do similar checking when I was using Linux boxes as terminal servers. It was right handy because I could use the lcp-echo-failure command to determine whether the PPPD was talking to another computer or a modem with a stuck DCD bit. (I had to stop because of occasional problems with magic number negotiation. I don't recall the circumstances better than this.) I don't know if this works (and, no offense, but I'm not going to dig through the source for pppd to find out---do it yourself if you're of a mind to) but I would suspect that setting the "lcp-echo-interval" value to 0 might turn it off. According to the man page (you did read the man page for pppd, didn't you?) lcp-echo-interval sets the interval between echo requests if no other traffic is on the line. It apparently defaults to 60 on your machine. -- Jonathan Guthrie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Brokersys +281-895-8101 http://www.brokersys.com/ 12703 Veterans Memorial #106, Houston, TX 77014, USA
