Differences between version 14 and predecessor to the previous major change of LinuxPPPoA.
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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:50:27 am | by MattBrown | Revert |
| Older page: | version 13 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 7:52:56 am | by GregHarris | Revert |
@@ -23,9 +23,9 @@
<M> PPP BSD-Compress compression
<M> PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)
<M> PPP over ATM (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
-And recompile your kernel. ''Note - at least one person had trouble with pppoa not working which was apparently solved by compiling atm and ppp over atm support into the kernel instead of as modules''.
+And recompile your kernel. ''Note - at least one person had trouble with pppoa not working which was apparently solved by compiling atm and ppp over atm support into the kernel instead of as modules''. - The problem with using modules for pppoa is that if you use too many you get a large dependency tree, this is the problem mentioed above. It is entirely possible to run pppoa (and other ppp related code) as modules provided that you are aware of the dependencies and ensure that the modules are loaded in the correct order
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!! Precompiled .deb
If you are impatient and just want to get PPPoA up and running on your system without compiling from source the following debs may work for you. Grab whichever one is appropriate for your version of debian. If you dont run debian woody or sarge, you have to compile from source.
