Differences between version 17 and predecessor to the previous major change of LinuxPPPoA.
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| Newer page: | version 17 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 9:28:25 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
| Older page: | version 15 | Last edited on Tuesday, May 13, 2003 2:00:00 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@
<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 ''. - 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.
-''modprobe should surely handle this itself, as it understands module dependencies. Can you elaborate on the correct module load order? --DanielLawson''
+''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.%%%
+''modprobe should surely handle this itself, as it understands module dependencies. Can you elaborate on the correct module load order? --DanielLawson''%%%
+''I've not yet seen modprobe do it correctly (i've never spent the time trying), i am not sure what the correct order is and it is dependent on what parts you have as modules and what parts are built in, specifically I think that pppoa requires pppoe to add some hooks but as they are not strictly dependent on each other the information that modprobe requires is not present. --MattBrown
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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.
