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Re: PPP Access under Linux

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From: Shawn Tooley
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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From: "Shawn Tooley" <shawn@ip-inc.com>
Subject: Re: PPP Access under Linux
Date: 1998/01/30
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