Check the modem that it gets a BAD CRC on - it will most likely have no
error correction (cheap user modem or they turned it off <unlikely>) and the
client computer wishes to leave the error correction up to the PPP protocol
so when a normal error comes along, instead of the modems fixing it PPP
reports a BAD CRC and corrects it.
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 06:48:57PM -0500, Carl Hillsman wrote:
> i've seen this as well....but intermittently. might just be line noise,
> but i have not gotten a definitive answer yet.
>
> On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Ben Conner wrote:
>
> > I'm getting the following msg in debug mode on my PM3 w/ the 56K digital
> > cards:
> >
> > PPP recv: BAD CRC - mdp M1
> >
> > I assume this indicates one of the modem chips is bad? This portmaster has
> > 5 of the 10 modem cards in it. How can I mask this one off so it uses one
> > of the other ones?
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