Re: pppd broken in 2.1.27/28?

Kohtala Marko (Marko.Kohtala@ntc.nokia.com)
06 Mar 1997 12:27:00 +0200


deathlock <brandt@europa.com> writes:

> when i compiled 2.1.27 i noticed that when i connected via pppd, some
> little things started happening in the interface config.... for example
>
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
> inet addr:206.163.12.77 P-t-P:206.163.12.23 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1524 Metric:32767
> RX packets:0 errors:2269 dropped:0 overruns:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:3538 overruns:0

The structures for the statistics have changed as well as /proc
outputs. New ifconfig is needed.

However, there seems not to exist a new version of the net-tools. The
1.32-alpha does not yet have the needed support.

I assume there is work progressing to update the tools.

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Marko Kohtala - Marko.Kohtala@ntc.nokia.com, Marko.Kohtala@hut.fi