On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Chris Nielsen wrote:
|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)
Kerneld or kmod is trying to auto-load modules. You need this
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp-deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
in /etc/conf.modules or perhaps /etc/modules.conf .
|Oct 21 00:11:58 audiogod pppd[293]: Unsupported protocol (0x8031)
|received
|Oct 21 00:11:58 audiogod pppd[293]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b)
|received
These are things pppd doesn't know about and which aren't needed for the
PPP link to be successful.
|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
The version of the kernel PPP support code is independent of the version
of pppd.
These are very old pppd's. They are so old that they are rarely seen in
a post anymore. You need to upgrade, ppp-2.3.10 is the latest.
If you are having TCP troubles then there is likely a VJ header compression
problem. Add the pppd option novj (or whatever the equivalent is for the
2.3.4 pppd version you are using - man pppd).
BTW tabbed over lines aren't at all good to use in posts.
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