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Paul Mackerras
- 17 April 2000
+ 8 March 2001
- for ppp-2.4.0
+ for ppp-2.4.2
1. Introduction
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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 2.3 kernel sources contain
+necessary, as the current 2.2 and 2.4 kernel sources contain
up-to-date drivers.
The Linux PPP implementation is capable of being used both for
2.1 Kernel driver
-Assuming you are running a recent 2.2 or 2.3 (or later) series kernel,
+Assuming you are running a recent 2.2 or 2.4 (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 2.3 series kernel. The kernel PPP driver
-was completely rewritten for the 2.3 series kernels to support
+you need to run the latest 2.4 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
and devices which look like serial ports, such as pseudo-ttys).
as modules, for kernels before 2.2.17pre12. For 2.2.17pre12 and later,
if the PPP driver is compiled in, the compression code will also.
-Under the 2.3 kernels, there are two PPP modules, ppp_generic.o and
+Under the 2.4 kernels, there are two PPP modules, ppp_generic.o and
ppp_async.o, plus the compression modules (ppp_deflate.o, bsd_comp.o
and slhc.o). If the PPP generic driver is compiled into the kernel,
the other four can then be present either as modules or compiled into
the usual procedure for installing the package.
If you are using the .tar.gz form of this package, then cd into the
-ppp-2.4.0b2 directory you obtained by unpacking the archive and issue
+ppp-2.4.1b1 directory you obtained by unpacking the archive and issue
the following commands:
$ ./configure
files.
-2.3 System setup for 2.3 kernels
+2.3 System setup for 2.4 kernels
-Under the 2.3 series kernels, pppd needs to be able to open /dev/ppp,
+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
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:
-/dev/ppp ppp_generic
+alias /dev/ppp ppp_generic
alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
If you have problems with your PPP setup, or you just want to ask some
questions, or better yet if you can help others with their PPP
questions, then you should join the linux-ppp mailing list. Send an
-email to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu with a line in the body saying
+email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org with a line in the body saying
subscribe linux-ppp
-To leave the mailing list, send an email to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
+To leave the mailing list, send an email to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
with a line in the body saying
unsubscribe linux-ppp
-To send a message to the list, email it to linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu.
+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.