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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.texas.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-fw-6.sprintlink.net!news.rns.net!flint.sentex.net!usenet From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why doesn't 2.1.6's generic kernel support PPP Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 09:25:27 -0500 Organization: RingZero Computing Lines: 40 Message-ID: <32A589D7.446B9B3D@quickweb.com> References: <nigel.29.0015C65A@znet.net.au> <581muo$br@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: p18.gallium.sentex.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-RELEASE i386) Bill Paul wrote: > > Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Nigel Gorry > (nigel@znet.net.au) had the courage to say: > > : Hi, > > : I was wondering why the Generic kernel that comes with 2.1.6 doesn't support > : PPP? > > > : Thanks > > : Nigel > > Learn to use the loadable kernel modules: > > # modload -e if_ppp_mod -o /tmp/if_ppp_mod /lkm/if_ppp_mod.o > > Presto: you now have ppp0 and ppp1 interfaces and can use pppd. > > The downside is that you need to use this command each time you > boot the system. If you want PPP support in the kernel without needing > to load the module, then you need to recompile. > Or just user the "userland" ppp -- it uses the tun0 device, which IS in the Generic kernel. Type man ppp to find out more - it's quite neat, you just type 'ppp', and you're off to the races.. You can automate the dialing in /etc/ppp/ppp.conf and automate the addition of routes to your routing table in /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup. I've been using the userlevel ppp for quite some time, and it performs quite well. The only problem I've had with it is that it sometimes causes my load to ficticiously rise to 1.0... -Mark > -Bill