On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, Robert Rouys wrote:
| Everything worked fine: netscape, Xfmail,...(RedHat 5.2 ppp 2.3.5) when
|unexpectedly no more access to the Web (it stays indefinitely "looking up")
|and xfmail very slowly downloaded only 25% of mail, then stalled. I had to
|use Win95 since it still works.
|What's the meaning of the following line in ppplog ?
|< Mar 7 14:00:40 localhost pppd[980]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x2]
|< Mar 7 14:00:40 localhost pppd[980]: rcvd [CCP ConfReq id=0x14 < 11 05 00
|01 03>]
|< Mar 7 14:00:40 localhost pppd[980]: sent [CCP ConfRej id=0x14 < 11 05 00
|01 03>]
|< Mar 7 14:00:40 localhost pppd[980]: rcvd [CCP ConfNak id=0x2 < 11 05 00
|01 03>]
|< Mar 7 14:00:40 localhost pppd[980]: Received bad configure-nak/rej: 11
|05 00 01 03
I *think* the ISP sent an "unsolicited ConfNak" suggesting that the ISP
needs for pppd accept a variety of STAC compression. This is meant to tell
pppd that it must accept data with this compression, which pppd cannot do
since the compression is proprietary. This rarely works anyway and the CCP
negotiation usually fails, which ordinarily is not a problem. The 2.3.5
pppd ignores the ConfNak and logs the "bad configure-nak/rej" message. (The
2.2.0 pppd also ignores an unsolicited ConfNak but does not log a message.)
Please note that I don't have the depth of experience with PPP to be sure
this is correct. However, if it is correct then you need to find another
ISP - unless you can persuade this one not require proprietary compression.
You can try posting the question on comp.protocols.ppp and may be able to
get an authoritative opinion there.
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Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
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