From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 25 13:10:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17AA237B404 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8696E43E8A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA07047; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:10:15 +1000 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 06:21:25 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Brooks Davis Cc: Bakul Shah , Dave Evans , Subject: Re: pppd not working on latest current 2002-10-20 In-Reply-To: <20021025123522.B23521@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Message-ID: <20021026061742.O5279-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > Until pppd is taught to create the interface if one doesn't > > exist, this information needs to be in /usr/src/UPDATING. > > pppd doesn't need to be taught to create the interface. Rather it needed > to learn to check for ppp support in a non-stupid way. The following Right. > patch should do it as well as making pppd do the right thing when > support isn't compiled in, but a module is available. It should make > things work with a GENERIC kernel. I disagree with auto-loading of modules for anything, but especially in setuid programs like pppd. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message