Re: PPP Access under Linux

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From: Elad Tsur
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00

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> I'm using slackware, but I don't believe this should make a difference.  If
> you're using a kernel off of the CD or a boot disk, odds are it doesn't have
> a lot of the networking functions built into the kernel.  There's really no
> way around it, you'll have to compile a new one.  Then you get the fun of
> setting the scripts up correctly.

Maybe it used to be that in the past, but now recompilinh the kernel is not
needed. I've used PPP in both RedHad 4.2 and Debian 1.3
with the distribution kernel with no problems at all. Actually one of the
machines is even set up as a dial-in PPP server . Modern kernels
support the concept of modules which make it possible to extend the basic
kernel of the distribution without recompiling. In the distributions I used,
PPP support was already compiled as a kernel module.

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Elad Tsur
http://lep1.tau.ac.il:8000/

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From: Elad Tsur <eladts@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: PPP Access under Linux
Date: 1998/01/29
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