Andrew Benton wrote: > Are you sure libpcap is only needed for packet filtering?
Unfortunatelly, I amn't, it's just a documentation (that, as you know, may describe one of the PREVIOUS releases, not the CURRENT one). Moreover, I rely on LFS so I enabled packet filtering and I use libpcap. > 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. You can check this if you really built ppp without libpcap, while I amn't :( -- Nothing but perfection pv -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
