Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:16:32 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Dave Evans <devans@hclb.demon.co.uk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20 Message-ID: <200210252116.RAA01720@marlborough.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 12:35:22 PDT." <20021025123522.B23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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> > 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 > 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. `device ppp' was already defined in my kernel config file so there was no need to kldload if_ppp. But I had to run `ifconfig create ppp' to make things work. I don't much like auto kldloading modules from suid programs. A simple hack is to just add ifconfig create ppp in rc.local. Also kldload if_ppp if needed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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