Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 1998 17:14:07 -0500 (EST) | From | flewid <> | Subject | Re: ppp and 2.1.126/2.1.125 |
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Mark Cooke wrote:
will these patches work instead of using 2.3.5? because the Documentation/Changes implecitly declares i need pppd 2.3.5
> On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 01, 1998 at 09:47:08AM -0500, flewid wrote: > > > Hi, i have tried installing 2.1.126, and then tried using ppp, and it did > > > not work, it dials my ISP, then doesnt resolv my ip's for some reason, it > > > just sits there and then hangs up, what is weird is, im using the exact > > > same configureation for 2.0.35, and it works just fine. > > <snip> > > > > i haven't a clue as to what is causing this, is there > > > something im forgetting to do? please feel free to tell me :) > > > > With 2.1.125, pppd is fine IF it is patched to NOT bail out if it > > cannot set the route. (This is needed to break the chain "link not up" > > <-> "cannot set route": pppd lets ppp? come up only after setting the > > default route while linux 2.1.125 lets the route be set only after the > > device has come up). There are patches, I do not remember where, search > > the archives. > > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ppp.txt has the patch which > applies to 2.2.0f, and with a tiny bit of massaging to 2.3.3 (as > supplied with Redhat, f'r instance). > > Patched Redhat 5.1 based rpms/srpms/sources/specs for ppp-2.3.3 are > available here: > > ftp://pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/packages/RPMS/i386/ppp-2.3.3-4mc2.i386.rpm > ftp://pc24.sr.bham.ac.uk/pub/packages/SRPMS/ppp-2.3.3-4mc2.src.rpm > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > Mark Cooke The views expressed above are mine and are not > Systems Programmer necessarily representative of university policy > University Of Birmingham URL: http://www.sr.bham.ac.uk/~mpc/ > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > >
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