[plug] Funny pppd messages in logs

[John Summerfield]

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
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