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 ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:01am up 89 days, 18:35, 1 user, load average: 1.92, 1.87, 1.80
