From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony.chamberlain@lemko.com Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:25:09 +0000 Subject: Re: Banyan Vines Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org -----Original Message----- From: James Carlson [mailto:carlsonj@workingcode.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 09:02 AM To: tony.chamberlain@lemko.com Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Banyan Vines tony.chamberlain@lemko.com writes: > Does anyone know what it means if you are running pptp and in > /var/log/messages you get a message "unsupported protocol Banyan Vines" > (along with a lot of unsupported protocol messages which are just > hex values), or what to do about it? It means you're getting garbled packets from the peer. If it's persistent and doesn't correct itself over time, the most plausible reason (I think) would be that you're using MPPE (MS proprietary packet encryption) and there's a bug in that code. If it just happens intermittently and then fixes itself, I'd ignore it. The cause would be dropped or corrupted packets and recovery by the encryption code. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W It appeared to be happening every couple minutes and causing the VPN to go down (even though pppd was still running) so I had to kill pppd and let it restart. That fixed it till the next time. So probably like you say it is mppe. Thanks