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>	Paul Taylor <birder@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> I've just installed the new 2.2.2 kernel on top of RedHat 5.2 (2.0.36-3
> kernel RPMs) using the 2.2.2 kernel source tarball and the 2.2 support RPMs
> (modutils etc.) from the RedHat FTP site.  The new kernel is working fine
> *except* for PPP.
> 
> I'm using pppd 2.0.35 (5.2 RPM), and have PPP compiled into the kernel.
> Following some messages I found on Dejanews, I have added the
> ppp-compress-xx aliases to conf.modules to take care of the "module not
> found" messages, but it still complains about the "ppp0" module.
> 
> After dialing in to the server, performance is poor - transfers seems
> to occur in short bursts instead of a stream.  Sessions are terminated
> after a few minutes by a purported SIGHUP signal - there is no sign of
> impending doom prior to this.  :)  (This occurred infrequently under
> 5.2 - very annoying.)  tcpdump has not shown up any obvious problems
> like nack packets, but I haven't gone too deeply into this.
> 
> Has anyone managed to successfully get a working PPP configuration
> under the 2.0.xx kernels to work correctly with 2.2.x?
> 


Paul,

PPPd under 2.2.2 is the same as under 2.0.x, except you need 2.3.5 pppd
as a minimum (I suspect that what you have, its RH5.2 standard. If not
then you need to upgrade pppd). There are several things you should look
at: enable debug on your ppp setup and have a look at the logs, you
may need irqtune to tune your interrupts on your serial card (assuming
its a problem servicing interrupts), and double check that the new setup 
hasn't put a option you don't need in your config..... like its trying to
do DNS lookups incorrectly (ie: make sure you have your /etc/resolv.conf
file set correctly). Its debugging time, but rest assured, 2.2.2 and
pppd do work well.

Cheers, Grahame
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