Re: no ppp in 2.1.105?

Robert Hamilton (hamilton@kdi.com)
Sun, 14 Jun 1998 21:37:58 -0500


Mr. James W. Laferriere writes:
> UH-Hmmmmm... as far as I remember a pppd created with a newer
> version will not work on a kernel with an older version of ppp.c
> and freinds . True ???

Not always true if you are reading this message :) I dropped back
into 2.0.33 to test this, here is heavily edited log file (note this
pppd was compiled under 2.1.103)
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Jun 14 21:12:50 barbarian kernel: Linux version 2.0.33 (robert@barbarian) (gcc version 2.7.2.1.f) #14 Wed Apr 22 17:30:44 CDT 1998
Jun 14 21:13:15 barbarian kernel: PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
Jun 14 21:13:16 barbarian kernel: registered device ppp0
Jun 14 21:13:16 barbarian pppd[89]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Jun 14 21:13:36 barbarian pppd[89]: Serial connection established.
Jun 14 21:13:48 barbarian pppd[89]: local IP address 208.21.242.84
Jun 14 21:13:48 barbarian pppd[89]: remote IP address 208.21.240.4
----------------------
up and running!

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Robert

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