Topic: Strange messages from ipppd

[Paul McEnery]

Hi

I have some strange messages appearing in the /var/log/messages from ipppd. They appear to be coming from LCP.

I have an internal PCI ISDN modem. The connection is working just fine and I have NO CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS at all. Except every now and then the log will have many lines that look like this:

Jun 24 12:31:29 e-smith ipppd[900]: rcvd [1][LCP ProtRej id=0x41 00 45 fc 91 ce f4 a7 cf 3b f7 d6 8e c6 91 22 8b 38 9b 22 15 16 8e 02 c8 b5 8c 03 e4 2f e3 23 96 f1 e6 5a 3d 09 a0 30 b3 30 95 9f 14 01 19 20 a9 44 cd c3 9a f9 01 5f cb d3 f7 b2 60 c2 25 1f 0b fa 57 e8 75 ce b6 b4 40 d8 b5 3a
Jun 24 12:31:29 e-smith ipppd[900]:  fc c7 f0 78 b8 8b bd 3d 37 4b 6b 46 a5 6e 4d f0 3c c1 01 84 e3 d9 35 e2 95 d1 ec 20 9c 55 b2 cd 86 cd a1 06 85 8e b2 8a ab 62 6f c2 df eb 77 2d c1 e4 43 9d fe 29 dc ff 67 b8 fc 95 07 13 85 df a5 cd fb 45 b3 9b 13 f3 0d 6d cb 3e 4f 33 b6 92 53 c1 cf 61 a2
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Jun 24 12:31:34 e-smith ipppd[900]:  45 44 52 42 42 42 42 42 42 74 36 30 56 2b 58 38 6c 57 58 66 63 67 6a 6f 59 74 0d 0a 45 54 72 49 6d 62 68 32 49 37 76 73 70 39 4e 65 69 7a 47 2b 70 2b 38 57 6b 6b 39 54 36 35 4a 31 6a]
Jun 24 12:31:34 e-smith ipppd[900]: demuxprotrej: Unrecognized Protocol-Reject for protocol 0x41

I have taken a look at google user groups and only seem to find a couple of entries relating to this subject, but they are all in German. Translation is not that successful

Does anyone know what causes these entries, and if they are a problem.

Many thanks

Paul