Re: Analysis of 6.1

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 22:23:14 +0200
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> > 
> > Den tir, 26 okt 1999 skrev du:
> > ..
> > > I have the same symptom: I dicovered it is realated to /dev/ppp the
> > > device independent PPP driver.  Strnagely Isee the device when doing a
> > > cat /proc/devices on the PII I have at work but not in the K6 I use at
> > > home so my guess is that the 586 kernel lacks some drivers who are
> > > present in the 686 kernel.
> > 
> 
> I was mistaken: there is no device independent PPP driver in the
> kernel for 686s, however after reading the doc for the new PPP daemon
> I found that it supports a new PPP driver available in the 2.3 kernel
> so given that we have the same symptoms both when the PPP daemon is
> started and configured by kppp and wvdialconf then my guess is that
> this is a daemon issue.  The daemon tries the 2.3 mode and after
> failing retries in 2.2 mode.  Perhaps it is simply a matter of some
> redhat idiot building it in a machine who had 2.3 include files or
> perhaps to patch it.  A thing is sure: we will have to rebuild it.
> 

I have looked at the source and in fact the ppp daemon will just try
the 2.3 method and then revert to the ppp method in case of failure.
Only that in the meantime you have spent a phone call and made the
phone company richer so we will have to check for a newer and smarter
version, talk with the developper for him including detection code or
test the kernel version ourselves.

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			Jean Francois Martinez

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