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Hello, everybody.

In my /var/log/messages I can find some lines like this

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pppd[251]: Remote message: ^D^EM-t^B^F
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What does the courious combination of letters mean?

This line appears only sometimes when I connect to my ISP, but NOT always.
I'm connected through a modem to the internet. My linux box works as a
router with IP-maquerading for my LAN (2 clients)

Thanx,

Sebastian

It's probably a message from a Microsoft peer acknowledging
authentication.  The RFC says it should be a text message but...

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Clifford Kite schrieb in Nachricht ...

Quote:>> ---
>> pppd[251]: Remote message: ^D^EM-t^B^F
>> ---
>> What does the courious combination of letters mean?

>> This line appears only sometimes when I connect to my ISP, but NOT
always.

>It's probably a message from a Microsoft peer acknowledging
>authentication.  The RFC says it should be a text message but...

You mean it could be my Windows client or is somebody trying to get access
to my machine?

Sebastian Scholz

No, that's very doubtful.  You have to authenticate yourself to
the peer in order to connect to it.  The peer acknowledges your
authentication request, and this is all done within the PPP protocol.
There is also a provision in the PPP RFC to send a human-readable
message concerning the authentication success or failure, but at least
some MS PPP implementations send something that's not human-readable.

Here is such a message from a sensible PPP implementation:

Jan  7 14:49:59 corncob pppd[1593]: rcvd [CHAP Success id=0x22 ""]

in which the message field is empty, the "".

You also may be getting an Identification code.  This is just a message
that is supposed to contain information about the peer, PPP version number,
manufacturer identity, ect.  Almost anything the peer wishes to provide.
It's purely information.

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Clifford Kite schrieb in Nachricht ...

Quote:>You also may be getting an Identification code.  This is just a message
>that is supposed to contain information about the peer, PPP version number,
>manufacturer identity, ect.  Almost anything the peer wishes to provide.
>It's purely information.

Thank you!

Sebastian Scholz    http://www.veryComputer.com/
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