Thanks, Clifford for sheding some light!
Well, the modprobe errors are gone! but there's still something broke... I
still can't do anything beyond ping. The latest /var/log/messages stuff
after adding the aliase lines you mentioned...
Oct 21 20:02:55 audiogod pppd[294]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod pppd[294]: Unsupported protocol (0x8031) received
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod pppd[294]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b) received
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod pppd[294]: local IP address 10.0.1.252
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod pppd[294]: remote IP address 10.0.1.4
Oct 21 20:02:57 audiogod pppd[294]: Received bad configure-ack:
Oct 21 20:03:06 audiogod last message repeated 3 times
On another system, I'm using Slackware 3.5, which installed PPP2.3.3, and
I don't see the unsupported protocol messages, and I'm calling the same
RAS server (a 3com RAS1500) with the same model modem, same switch
settings. And mine has been working flawlessly for
nearly a year (24/7). But if you say they are unimportant, that's fine....
I obtained the 2.3.4 version from linux.org PPP howto. I *thought* that
would lead me to the most recent s/w.... The link was dead (someone used a
capital N in network in the path, so I poked around and found the most
recent thing there.
(ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/ppp/).
Do you know where I can get the 2.3.10 version you mentioned?
But it looks like the trouble is the "bad configure-ack". But I'll try
installing the one you mentioned and following your other pointers...
I'm really curious about why RedHat install didn't put those aliase lines
into the conf.modules file.. Random glitch??? Oh well....
Oh, and why arn't tabed over sections good? I didn't think *leading* tabs
would hurt?
Thanks again for your pointers.
-C
> 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 .
>
> 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.
>
> ---
> Clifford Kite Not a guru. (tm)
>
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