[plug] Funny pppd messages in logs

[Oliver]

Thanks for the help :)

At 07:57 AM 11/30/98 +0800, you wrote:
>On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Oliver White wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm getting funny messages in my log files when I run wvdial to dialup
>> with Debian 2.0:
>> 
>> Nov 29 22:38:14 vanilla pppd[20058]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6
>> magic=0xffffe043]
>> Nov 29 22:38:14 vanilla pppd[20058]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6
>> magic=0xbe81b7]
>> Nov 29 22:38:44 vanilla pppd[20058]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7
>> magic=0xffffe043]
>> Nov 29 22:38:45 vanilla pppd[20058]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x7
>> magic=0xbe81b7]
>> Nov 29 22:39:14 vanilla pppd[20058]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x8
>> magic=0xffffe043]
>> Nov 29 22:39:14 vanilla pppd[20058]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x8
>> magic=0xbe81b7]
>> Nov 29 22:39:44 vanilla pppd[20058]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x9
>> magic=0xffffe043]
>> Nov 29 22:39:44 vanilla pppd[20058]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x9
>> magic=0xbe81b7]
>> Nov 29 22:40:14 vanilla pppd[20058]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0xa
>> magic=0xffffe043]
>> Nov 29 22:40:15 vanilla pppd[20058]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0xa
>> magic=0xbe81b7]
>> 
>> I haven't looked too closely into the configuration yet but does anyone
>> have any idea what the problem might be?
>
>better to look before asking. You might have found this with "man pppd" and
>decided to check what options you have on the commandline and in /etc/ppp.
>
>       debug  Enables connection debugging facilities.   If  this
>              option  is given, pppd will log the contents of all
>              control packets sent  or  received  in  a  readable
>              form.   The  packets are logged through syslog with
>              facility daemon and level debug.  This  information
>              can  be  directed to a file by setting up /etc/sys-
>              log.conf appropriately (see syslog.conf(5)).
>
>You would probably have got to the answer more quickly.
>
>Cheers
>John Summerfield
>http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support.
>Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index.
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