Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote:
According to sources/ppp-2.4.3/pppd/Makefile.linux:
# Uncomment the next line to include support for PPP packet filtering.
# This requires that the libpcap library and headers be installed
# and that the kernel driver support PPP packet filtering.
So if you won't use packet filtering you need not libpcap.
Thanks. Are you sure libpcap is only needed for packet filtering? I
thought I read somewhere that libpcap enables ppp to detect when a
connection is dead and it can then (after a timeout) call up your ISP
again and reestablish the connection.
Andy
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