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Date:      Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:21:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Dave Evans <devans@hclb.demon.co.uk>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20
Message-ID:  <20021026061742.O5279-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021025123522.B23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > Until pppd is taught to create the interface if one doesn't
> > exist, this information needs to be in /usr/src/UPDATING.
>
> pppd doesn't need to be taught to create the interface.  Rather it needed
> to learn to check for ppp support in a non-stupid way.  The following

Right.

> patch should do it as well as making pppd do the right thing when
> support isn't compiled in, but a module is available.  It should make
> things work with a GENERIC kernel.

I disagree with auto-loading of modules for anything, but especially in
setuid programs like pppd.

Bruce


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