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- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Path: sparky!uunet!ulowell!koverber
- From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
- Subject: Partial PPP success! BUT....
- Message-ID: <C183Mu.AJz@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
- Originator: koverber@bigmax.ulowell.edu
- Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell)
- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:28:06 GMT
- Lines: 58
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-
- Ok,
-
- After 3 days of constant work, I finally got my Sparc I and
- Sun3 to trade packets... Not very quickly, mind you, but at least
- they are exchanging packets. I am using PPP-1.1. The two machines
- are connected via a null modem cable and are running at 19200 baud.
- Here is what my stats look like (colt is remote mach, pinto is local)
-
- This is what a netstat -i on pinto (local) gave me....
- Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue
- le0 1500 129.63.0.0 pinto 58162 0 55263 0 20 0
- ppp0 1500 colt pinto 133 0 413 1 0 0
- lo0 1536 loopback localhost 112125 0 112125 0 0 0
-
- Here are the local ifconfigs...
-
- root@pinto;/etc> ifconfig ppp0
- ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING>
- inet 129.63.28.23 --> 129.63.28.20 netmask ffff0000
-
- ^--- Does this mean that 129.63.28.23 (local) is a gateway to
- 129.63.28.20 (remote mach) Im not too sure...
-
- I did have this problem with the local end. These are the error messages:
- Jan 21 15:52:27 pinto vmunix: ppp: unknown protocol 0xffff
- Jan 21 15:52:28 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: bad protocol low byte
- Jan 21 15:52:28 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: short packet
- Jan 21 15:52:28 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: bad protocol low byte
- Jan 21 15:52:29 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: short packet
- Jan 21 15:52:29 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: bad protocol low byte
- Jan 21 15:52:29 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: short packet
- Jan 21 15:52:29 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: bad protocol low byte
- Jan 21 15:52:29 pinto vmunix: ppp_async: short packet
- Jan 21 15:52:30 pinto vmunix: ppp: unknown protocol 0xffff
- (...just keep repeating this sequence...)
- What could be causing these? Improper handshaking?
-
- One problem is that the only evidence that this is working is that i can see
- the packet count go up. ping dosen't work, etc...
- I believe the problem is that my routing tables are messed up. I
- configured them similarly to the way they say in the docs, but
- I'm no networking guru. I know just enough to be dangerous. :^)
-
- Does anyone out there have ANY idea whats going on? Can anyone point
- me in the right direction? How about any good info on how /etc/gateways
- should be set up? How about some info on how routing works? Helllp!
- Any info would be GREATLY appreciated!! Please help so I can go to bed!!
- Thanks!
-
-
- peace out.
-
- kurt
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