Re: PPP high error rates !!!

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From: Jeff Long
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 23:34

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Timothy Wayne Kieschnick wrote:
> 
> In article <4favqm$brr@news.tamu.edu>,
> Tim Kieschnick <tkies@educ.tamu.edu> wrote:
> >In article <tcelaDM742L.73y@netcom.com>,
> >Thomson Consumer Electronic <bok@bok.net> wrote:
> >>The errors reported by ifconfig worry me :
> >>
> >>ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
> >>          inet addr:206.24.116.33  P-t-P:206.24.112.2  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >>          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >>          RX packets:6596 errors:33 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >>          TX packets:8092 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
> >Me too...
> 
> I've fixed these by using the hdparm utility to turn on unmasking of
> IDE interupts.  The errors disappeared.

Be careful using hdparm to do this.  If you are using an EIDE drive
on a motherboard that uses the PC-Tech RZ1000 controller chip this can
cause data loss if your BIOS has the RZ1000 pre-fetch feature turned on.


> 
> >However, I can plug a Supra 28.8 in and change the init from at&f1 to
> >at&f2 (to keep hardware flow control) and no problems!
> 
> I still don't understand how this is happening.
> 
> ---
> Tim Kieschnick
> timk@tamu.edu

-- 
Jeff Long
mailto:long@eecs.ukans.edu
http://www.eecs.ukans.edu/~long		(may work, may not)

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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 17:34:55 -0600
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