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Date:      Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:28:40 +0000
From:      Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
To:        Joseph Stein <joes@seaport.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@awfulhak.net
Subject:   Re: FCS error? 
Message-ID:  <199711131228.MAA15701@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Nov 1997 02:52:27 PST." <199711131052.CAA01027@shasta.wstein.com> 

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> > Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 1 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 
[.....]
> > Phase: HDLC errors -> FCS: 3 ADDR: 0 COMD: 0 PROTO: 0 
> 
> Can somebody (Brian ??? :) tell me please, what an FCS error is, and if 
> tere is any solution to combatting it?
> 
> I am using FreeBSD-STABLE, recently built (yesterday, 12-Nov from sources
> current at 23:00 11-Nov), and have been getting a LOT of these (even before
> the rebuild).
> 
> They seem to occur about the same time that I get (either) silo or interrupt
> level overflows.
[.....]

Each lump of ppp data is  framed with a couple of initial bytes and a 
sum at the end.  An FCS error is when the sum doesn't add up.

It's normally due to flow control, sio overflows or the fact that 
you're not talking to a ppp program (perhaps ppp has exited and 
you're trying to parse login prompts).

> joe

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