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Article #778Re: PPP Access under Linux
From: Shawn Tooley
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 00:00
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I just configured my machine for PPP dial up to Internet. I used a program called EZPPP. Works great, directions are specific and it is very east to set-up. No kernel hacking needed. -- Shawn Tooley shawn@ip-inc.com My ICQ Web-Page Address Is: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/5723986 Elad Tsur wrote in message <34D0597D.2A50D09B@ccsg.tau.ac.il>... >> 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. > >-- >Elad Tsur >http://lep1.tau.ac.il:8000/ >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100c5f,80fd9ce5224d9f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid100c5f,public X-Google-Thread: 102983,80fd9ce5224d9f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public X-Google-Thread: f4bda,80fd9ce5224d9f74 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bda,public X-Google-Thread: fc951,80fd9ce5224d9f74 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc951,public From: "Shawn Tooley" <shawn@ip-inc.com> Subject: Re: PPP Access under Linux Date: 1998/01/30 Message-ID: <6athok$21f$2@cletus.bright.net> X-Deja-AN: 320675691 References: <01bd287e$328f89e0$LocalHost@snoopy> <slrn6ckii2.6h.corliss@odin.org> <34D0597D.2A50D09B@ccsg.tau.ac.il> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: BrightNet Ohio Newsgroups: alt.linux,aus.computers.linux,bigpond.userforum,comp.os.linux.x