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Date:      Wed, 17 Jan 1996 09:50:23 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        tomg@fourthgen.com (Tom Greenwalt)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Yet another PPP question
Message-ID:  <199601170850.JAA02812@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601170252.UAA03134@fourthgen.com> from "Tom Greenwalt" at Jan 16, 96 08:52:23 pm

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As Tom Greenwalt wrote:
> 
> Jan 16 20:38:25 fourthgen pppd[2916]: input: Unknown protocol (802b) received!
> Jan 16 20:38:25 fourthgen pppd[2916]: input: Unknown protocol (803f) received!

> What's the "Unknown protocol" mean?  The connection doesn't seem very stable

Microsoft proprietary compression protocols.  They are negotiated, and
therefore not being used during this session.

> and users have a tendency to be kicked off the system unexpectedly.  If they
> connect using TCPMAN there is no "Unknown protocol" messages and everything
> seems to work ok.

The "Unknown protcol" shouldn't hurt, if negotiation fails, it's simply
turned off.  I'd say the other M$ program is plain buggy.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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