Thanks Manuel,

I wanted to remove 1.5 PPP from the suspect list, and your
datapoint supports this.  I can sometimes get this connection to
authenticate - the negotiation proceeds to varying degrees around the
fcs errors. The whole thing looks like a hardware/noise issue, with
the exception of the apparently clean terminal/login session. It may
be time to start working through some hardware replacements on the
premise that this is an esoteric hardware issue.

Rex

Manuel Bouyer writes:
 > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 06:50:52PM +1100, rmcm@compsoft.com.au wrote:
 > > 
 > > Has anyone any experience/advice re pppd variation between 1.4.X/ and
 > > 1.5 (i386)?  We are about to upgrade a group of remote servers to 1.5
 > > from 1.4.X.  and our initial tests (same hardware/modem/lines) on one
 > > server has failed with fcs errors (after the interface comes up). The
 > > basic 1.4.X pppd config is
 > >        
 > >     lock 38400 crtscts modem /dev/tty01
 > > 
 > > The line is ok with a plain terminal connection (ok in that I was not
 > > able to force an overrun with text dumps)
 > 
 > I had to add 'noauth' to the list of options on my server, but that's all.
 > 
 > --
 > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
 > --

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Rex McMaster