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From: wpaul@panix.com (Bill Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: ppp pseudo-device ?
Date: 10 Jul 1994 15:57:22 -0400
Organization: The M00se Illuminati (bl00p!)
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Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se,
Thuy Mai (thuy@starbase.neosoft.com) had the courage to say:
: I am running FreeBSD 1.1. When I configure SLIP connection, I
: just defined "pseudo-device sl <number>" & "netstat -i" will
: show exact number of slip devices that I have.
: I trying to do the same with the PPP connection, it seems like
: it doesn't matter what number that I try to configure:
: pseudo-device ppp <number>. It shows that I only have one ppp0.
: Any ideas,
: thuy
This is the result of a small bug in FreeBSD 1.1. Go to /usr/src/sys/net
and you will see a file called ppp.h. Rename this file to something else
(pppdefs.h, for instance) and recompile.
The problem is that the 'config' command creates a file in your kernel
compilation tree (/usr/src/sys/compile/CONFIGFILE) called ppp.h which
contains the line: #define NPPP N (where N is the number of ppp devices
you specified in your configuration). /usr/src/sys/net/ppp.h also
contains a #definition for NPPP, which happens to be hard-coded to 1.
The name conflict causes the wrong ppp.h to be read, and the end result
is that if_ppp.c always sees #define NPPP 1.
Strange, but thue.
-Bill
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