I'm hoping I'm using the right address for the list, as the majordomo
"welcome" message doesn't say what address to use for sending to the
list...
Anyway..
I've had a particurlarly frustrating time getting PPP to wrok on a brand new Redhat
6.0 install.
Something somewhere must really be screwed up. I've installed PPP on Slackware, and it
wasn't nearly
this hard to get working! I've been slaving over this for probably spent 20 hours
fighting this...
I think the gist of the trouble is this in /var/log/messages:
Oct 21 00:11:56 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
Oct 21 00:11:56 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
Oct 21 00:11:56 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
(appears later)
Oct 21 00:11:58 audiogod pppd[293]: Unsupported protocol (0x8031) received
Oct 21 00:11:58 audiogod pppd[293]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b) received
Oct 21 00:12:04 audiogod pppd[293]: Received bad configure-ack:
The first time around, I tried setting PPP up using linuxconfig. I can ping the world,
but can't telnet or
use any other TCP type tool. I've even tried completely reinstalling PPP. The stock
RH6 one is ppp-2.3.3,
and I installed 2.3.4. The Kernel still says "2.3.3 support" on boot - the new PPP
kernel install says not to
mess with it even if nothing is changed, so I didn't. I see PPP 2.3.4 show up in the
/var/log/ppplog:
Oct 20 23:34:56 audiogod ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS0 at
115200
Oct 20 23:34:56 audiogod pppd[771]: pppd 2.3.4 started by root, uid 0
Oct 20 23:35:22 audiogod pppd[771]: Serial connection established.
Oct 20 23:35:23 audiogod pppd[771]: Using interface ppp0
Oct 20 23:35:23 audiogod pppd[771]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Oct 20 23:35:23 audiogod pppd[771]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0>
<magic 0x5831dc9e> <pcomp> <accomp>]Oct 20 23:35:23 audiogod pppd[771]: rcvd [LCP
ConfAck id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x5831dc9e> <pcomp> <accomp>]Oct 20 23:35:25
audiogod pppd[771]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <mru 1514> <asyncmap 0x0> <magic
0x3c2672f5> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Oct 20 23:35:25 audiogod pppd[771]: sent [LCP ConfAck id=0x2 <mru 1514>
<asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x3c2672f5> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Oct 20 23:35:25 audiogod pppd[771]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr
192.168.0.105> <compress VJ 0f 01>]
Oct 20 23:35:26 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-21
Oct 20 23:35:26 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-26
Oct 20 23:35:26 audiogod modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-24
The PPP docs (2.3.4) says that "if you're loading PPP via modules, then you must do it
in the specific order - but the doc doesn't say anything about all the compress kernel
code if you *done't* want to use modules. So, I've even tried removing PPP from the
kernel config, adding this to my rc.sysinit file:
# this from the ppp READMEs:
##If you are using loadable modules for the ppp then you must load them
##after the kernel has been started. The following relative order must
##be maintained.
##
##Sequence Module Description
## 1 slhc.o VJ header compression
## 2 ppp.o PPP driver
## 3 bsd_comp.o BSD compression for PPP's compression protocol.
/sbin/modprobe slhc.o
/sbin/modprobe ppp.o
/sbin/modprobe bsd_comp.o
I can't find anything to indicate which module files (.o files) the compress modules
are *supposed* to be in.
I've looked on a slackware system with working PPP, and can't find anything much
different - similar modules seem
to be there too. I don't see any additional ppp-compress type modules.
I've looked at another RH6 system, and can't find any modules that are different
either.
Thanks for any relief you can provide for this frustrating problem!
Cheers,
Chris
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