Re: PPP high error rates !!!

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From: Timothy Wayne Kieschnick
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:23

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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.

>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

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From: tkies@tam2000.tamu.edu (Timothy Wayne Kieschnick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: PPP high error rates !!!
Date: 10 Feb 1996 00:23:39 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx
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