Have installed 5.6b7 (because I need to support a reiserfs disk) as
upgrade to an install of 5.5, am relatively new to e-smith. The 5.6b7
iso took 8 hours to download, btw :)
First of all: it works... mostly. Am connected through it right now,
but with the old SuSE 7.3 box still in between, to maintain the
connection between ADSL modem and e-smith for now. That makes things
ok outbound, but prevents inbound traffic from reaching the new e-smith
setup, so it's just a kludge until everything works directly.
Here's some info on my attempts to get the Dutch mxstream working
(ADSL/pptp) on e-smith itself, based on the www.adsl4linux.nl software
(1.09a).
- Had to add an iptables rule to allow echo reply packets from e-smith
to adsl-modem back in. This was a bit hard to track down, because
adding 10.0.0.0/24 as local net worked when set up, but failed to work
after a reboot. It looks like different rules are set when setting
things up and when starting from a power-up? Anyway, the rule I added
was:
iptables -I icmpIn -j ACCEPT -p icmp -s 10.0.0.0/24
After that, pinging the modem works (or the old firewall, when that
sits between 'em). This was needed to make the adsl4linux scripts
progress and actually try to set up pptp.
- Nearly there, though it now looks like there is one more stumbling
block - pptp reports "Client connection established", but right after
that modprobe fails to load ppp-compress-21, which is an alias for the
"bsd_comp" module. And indeed, the "bsd_comp" module is not present in
the 2.4.18-5 kernel that comes with e-smith 5.6dev beta 7.
What is the best thing to do? Can this be fixed easily? I'd rather
not go through the process of building an e-smith kernel. Would it be
possible to find suitable bsd_comp.o etc, add them to to the modules
and "depmod -a" to get it all fixed for now?
Hints/suggestions/help would be much appreciated...
-jcw
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