On Wed Feb 03 1999 at 14:11, Sangohn Christian wrote:
> I need help with the following. PPP makes a lot of output on my console.
> Is this OK?
Completely harmless. It's just the PPP protocol's way of saying "hi,
are you still there at the other end of the link".
Turn off the echo request parameter in your /etc/ppp/options file, and
stop syslog from spitting these messges out to /dev/console
You'll have to read the man pages for pppd and syslogd, and check
/etc/syslog.conf to see what log service pppd uses and to change what
syslogd is doing with them.
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x0]
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x0]
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x4 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x4 magic=0x0]
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x5 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x5 magic=0x0]
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x6 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x6 magic=0x0]
> pppd[393]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x7 magic=0xcd6630a1]
> pppd[393]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x7 magic=0x0]
Prior to the 2.2 versions of pppd, these EchoReq LCP (Link Control
Protocol) packets were only sent during periods of inactivity. (The
idea was to see if the link was still alive). However, the post 2.2
versions seem to do this regardless of the data traffic over the link.
Beats me why this has changed. It's a bloody nusiance, IMHO.
Cheers
Tony
