Re: tlug: pppd on Sparc RedHat 4.2

[Chris Sekiya <chris@example.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Dmytro Kovalev wrote:

> Yes ;(

Okay, then it's a RH-4.2 issue.  Either a bad binary, or the box on the 
other end speaks a newer flavor of the ppp protocol.

(I'm not going to launch into my anti-RH-sparc-distribution tirade ;) )

The intel box is running a more current version of RH, right?

> Actually I didn't check the version. It's the one I got on RH CD. 

It's going to be something quite ancient.  ppp-2.1.2 perhaps.

Under normal circumstances, I'd recommend that pppd be recompiled from
source (ftp://cs.anu.edu.au/pub/software/ppp/ppp-2.3.5.tar.gz).  In this
case ... I'm not sure that ppp-2.3.5 will work properly with a stock
2.0.2x kernel.

If the new pppd acts strangely, you'll need to use a newer kernel.  I
think the one from RH-5.2 will work okay.

-- Chris

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