Paul Mackerras
8 March 2001
- for ppp-2.4.1
+ for ppp-2.4.2
+ Updated for ppp-2.4.5, Sep 08
1. Introduction
---------------
parts. This package contains the user-level part, which consists of
the PPP daemon (pppd) and associated utilities. In the past this
package has contained updated kernel drivers. This is no longer
-necessary, as the current 2.2 and 2.4 kernel sources contain
-up-to-date drivers.
+necessary, as the current kernel sources contain up-to-date drivers
+(and have done since the 2.4.x kernel series).
The Linux PPP implementation is capable of being used both for
initiating PPP connections (as a `client') or for handling incoming
2.1 Kernel driver
-Assuming you are running a recent 2.2 or 2.4 (or later) series kernel,
+Assuming you are running a recent 2.4 or 2.6 (or later) series kernel,
the kernel source code will contain an up-to-date kernel PPP driver.
If the PPP driver was included in your kernel configuration when your
kernel was built, then you only need to install the user-level
The 2.2 series kernels contain an older version of the kernel PPP
driver, one which doesn't support multilink. If you want multilink,
-you need to run the latest 2.4 series kernel. The kernel PPP driver
+you need to run a 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel. The kernel PPP driver
was completely rewritten for the 2.4 series kernels to support
multilink and to allow it to operate over diverse kinds of
communication medium (the 2.2 driver only operates over serial ports
the usual procedure for installing the package.
If you are using the .tar.gz form of this package, then cd into the
-ppp-2.4.1b1 directory you obtained by unpacking the archive and issue
+ppp-2.4.5 directory you obtained by unpacking the archive and issue
the following commands:
$ ./configure
2.3 System setup for 2.4 kernels
Under the 2.4 series kernels, pppd needs to be able to open /dev/ppp,
-character device (108,0). If you are using devfs (the device
-filesystem), the /dev/ppp node will automagically appear when the
-ppp_generic module is loaded, or at startup if ppp_generic is compiled
-in.
+character device (108,0). If you are using udev (as most distributions
+do), the /dev/ppp node should be created by udevd.
-If you have ppp_generic as a module, and you are using devfsd (the
-devfs daemon), you will need to add a line like this to your
-/etc/devfsd.conf:
-
-LOOKUP ppp MODLOAD
-
-Otherwise you will need to create a /dev/ppp device node with the
+Otherwise you may need to create a /dev/ppp device node with the
commands:
# mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
# chmod 600 /dev/ppp
-If you use module autoloading and have PPP as a module, you will need
-to add the following to your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules:
-
-alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
-alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
-alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
-alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
-alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
-alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
-alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
-
2.4 System setup under 2.2 series kernels
To send a message to the list, email it to linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org.
You don't have to be subscribed to send messages to the list.
-You can also email me (paulus@linuxcare.com.au) but I am overloaded
-with email and I can't respond to most messages I get in a timely
-fashion.
+You can also email me (paulus@samba.org) but I am overloaded with
+email and I can't respond to most messages I get in a timely fashion.
There are also several relevant news groups, such as comp.protocols.ppp,
comp.os.linux.networking, or comp.os.linux.setup.
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