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Re: What do these diald errors mean?

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From: Bill Swisher
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00
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> Sound like you're using a 2.2 kernel? I found when I installed
> 2.2.3 that simply recompiling diald makes it use the tap
> driver for listening for incoming packets rather than slip.
> That driver seems to be fine in 2.2 but it doesn't accept
> setting metric from ifconfig which diald seems to be hard
> wired to do. I hacked those calls out and all seems to be
> working fine.

Could you elaborate on this?  I was just about to jump into the 2.2.3
kernel....and I rely on diald.
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From: Bill Swisher <bswisher@micronet.net>
Subject: Re: What do these diald errors mean?
Date: 1999/03/19
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