PPP works, too!

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@cs.arizona.edu)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 21:06:36 -0700

Just got PPP up and running. Except for the typical minor changes of
replacing "unsigned long" with __u32 and changing a char to a long to
make set_bit() work it worked right out of the box.

As a "proof" here some ifconfig output:

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bash# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:2000  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:62 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0


ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
          inet addr:169.197.3.5  P-t-P:169.197.1.20  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:296  Metric:1
          RX packets:749 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:1321 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0



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(BTW: Don't bother trying to rlogin to 169.197.3.5---I don't have
inetd running yet...)


A kernel patch is forthcoming (though it will be a small one :).
Also, patches for gpm-root (a simple console-based menu manager) are
upcoming---gpm and gpm-root now work flawlessly as far as we can tell.


With mouse-support and Internet access Linux/Alpha *really* starts to
be fun to work with.


	--david