Sorry for the late reply..
I've messed around with my system a lot since then (nothing particulrly
related to ppp, and also no Kernel or glibc changes), but now when I try to
run pppd it runs correctly.
When I did have the problem, modprobe failed saying that I do not have a ppp
module, and of course lsmod didn't show a ppp module loaded.
I'm really interested in the notion that ipppd (which AFAIK is just a
modified pppd) doesn't require ppp support in the kernel (whether that exist
or not), while pppd does.
looking at my system now, I see that I have a net/ppp.o , and since I
changed none, I guess it was there all along :-)
Oded
--
In specifications, Murphy's Law supersedes Ohm's.
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
> > Hi list !
> >
> > The darnest thing - I'm trying to set up a simple VPN using pppd over
ssh,
> > but when I try to run pppd on my system, it reports that the kernel is
> > lacking ppp support, and suggest that I modprobe ppp or something.
>
> So the ppp module is not loaded.
>
> Have you tried 'modprobe ppp' or whatever?
>
> Or is there anything in your message that I'm missing?
>
> > The system is a vanilla Mandrake 7.2, and I'm sure I have ppp support,
> > because I run ISDN on that machine with ipppd, connected to the net ..
> > Why ?
>
> lsmod ?
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
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