Strange PPP Disconnect errors?

Kevin D. Clark kclark at elbrysnetworks.com
Fri Dec 1 15:54:26 EST 2006


Ben Scott writes:

> On 12/1/06, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>> Is there anything you can do with the Tungsten or Windows peers to
>> capture the PPP traffic so we could compare this to the failing Linux
>> PPP session?  Ethereal/Wireshark?
>
>   I think LCP happens below the link layer.  I would not expect it to
> be visible to pcap (which Wireshark uses).

Some pcap libraries encapsulate LCP and other link layer protocols
inside pseudo-ethernet frames and can pass them right up to things
like Wireshark.  I've even heard of people doing this on Windows.

This is why I suggested it.

Regards,

--kevin
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