> On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Brian Elfert wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, James Sneeringer wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 6 Feb 1998, G. Turner wrote:
> > > |
> > > | You're probably seeing PPP keepalives.
> > >
> > > Received LCP_ECHO_REQUEST on port S12 of 4 bytes containing:
> > > 09 dd 00 08 00 00 00 00
> > > Sending LCP_ECHO_REPLY to port S12 of 8 bytes containing:
> > > 0a dd 00 08 fd 9a 61 5b
> >
> > This is exactly what I see.
>
> PPP uses Echo-Requests/Replys to determine link quality (among some other
> things). This is normal to see.
>
> >
> > > One user's router (albeit, a dedicated 24/7 customer) sends these every
> > > second. Down both B channels. It's quite annoying when you're trying to
> > > see _real_ debugging output. How about a way to filter them, or at least
> > > prevent them from showing up in 0x51?
>
> The thing is that they *are* real PPP "debugging output". It would be
> sort of arbitrary to leave them out since they are just as much part of
> the PPP session as anything else. So no, there is not really a way to
> leave just them out of the output (that I'm aware of).
>
> I would personally like to see a way to do a "set debug 0x51 sX" or
> whatever (on a per port basis). This would probably help you out some.
The much mentioned next generation management tool will address these
problems. The first cut gives you the opportunity to filter debug
requests with a PERL5 regular expression. Later versions will sort
output by port (or whatever) and present individual streams.
Coming soon to a virtual machine near you ...
> >
> > Most of mine are are from ISDN customers, but I also see this occasionally
> > from modem customers running Windows 95.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea how to shut these off. They do really screw up
> > things when trying to do PPP debugging.
> >
> > Brian
>
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