On Fri, 27 Jun 1997 15:05:35 -0500 (CDT),
"David A. Gatwood" <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu> wrote:
> whenever I connect the PB145 (NetBSD) to the 7100 (MkLinux), I get
> errors....  Initially, I was getting problems with vjc compression,
> which I turned off, leaving only one that I can't figure out....
> ppp0: bad fcs 71a2 (twice) followed by a couple with da10, etc.

Fcs stands for Frame Check Sequence.  A fancy name for a CRC.  So, I'd
guess the PB can't quite keep up with the data rate thus drops a char
here and there, making discripancies between calculated and received
fcs.

> it seems to only happen when a large amount of data is displayed at
> once, like full-screen programs such as lynx and man.

Makes sense.

> I know I can change the syslogd.conf to trash these or redirect to a
> file, but what's causing these errors, and is there a way to keep
> the errors from happening, rather than just masking the symptoms?

Make connection at a slower speed, like 19200 or something.  Or, fix
the linux serial driver so that it'll do hand-shake properly ;-)

Later,

Ken