Try reducing the pppd speed in potions (or however you set it :)
	A lower speed can (counterintuitively) give better throughput
	by avoiding silo overflows. This _may_ be your problem.

		David/absolute

                -=-  "Just when everything was making sense"  -=-

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Brian Wildasinn wrote:

> Hi!
> Just discovered GNUStep and the rest of the mail/news apps in the packages
> collection--great stuff! I'm glad that NetBSD has adopted a collection handling
> system comparible to FreeBSD's ports. This has proved quite a time saver having
> the dependency apps linked in and whatnot. 
> 
> Could someone take a crack at my connection errors and give me some pointers
> on where or how to solve these? It looks like three specific boogaloos are
> affecting my line of communication to the server I'm attached to thru pppd.
> Here's the errors: 
> 
>         http://www.csulb.edu/~bwildasi/unix/netbsd/messages/
> 
>         In condensed form here they are:
> 
>         /netbsd: ppp0: bad protocol 820
>         /netbsd: ppp0: bad fcs e262
>         /netbsd: ppp0: bsd fcs 26f0  
>         /netbsd: zstty0: 3 silo overflows, 0 ibuf floods
> 
> These errors occur no matter what type of connection I make, like ftp knews
> lynx or others that travel thru the phone line. I gave up on Mozilla, Arena,
> and some other WWW browsers due to these errors.    
>         
> The fcs and silo come in a variety of what appears to be location errors, 
> while the protocol 820 remains the same bad boy all the time. The link above
> is the /var/log/messages from some recent boots. My machine hardware and
> software is at the top along with the ppp connections.
> 
> Any help will no doubt shed lots of light on this reoccuring problem that
> has been on this system since NetBSD-1.2D. All my ppp scripts tht i use now are
> available at : http://www.csulb.edu/~bwildasi/unix/netbsd/ppp.tar.gz  BTW
> is there a way to have system generated errors sent to an xconsole or xterm 
> instead of having the bottom of the terminal screen constantly scroll
> upwards and making the window xterms unreadable. So many "restarts" from twm
> are necessary that twm bails out often leaving me to save a sesseion by
> manually setting the setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/X11R6/lib just to stitch on
> another window manager to save the session. This is very much like typeing by
> memory in the dark or with your eyes closed when top windows are not accessable.
> 
> Bye!
> Brian
> bwildasi@csulb.edu
> http://www.csulb.edu/~bwildasi/unix/netbsd/
>        
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> E-Mail: Brian Wildasinn <bwildasi@csulb.edu>
> Date: 25-Jul-98
> Time: 19:14:17
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