Michael Perry wrote:

On 31 Mar, dizzy73 wrote:

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HI Dan I think thats unusual. I was under the impression that ppp and slip where stock in suses distro. Is this on 5.3? Or 6? rob

I dont think so. I have installed 5.3 on a number of occasions and did not get ppp in the kernel. It seemed rather odd to me when it happened and I chalked it up to perhaps something I had done differently. When I did the 5.0 release, I seem to remember getting ppp without a problem. Perhaps something changed in the 5.3 release?

-- Michael Perry mperry@basin.com

Thats weird... Ive installed 5.3 about 12x and never had to build a kernel for ppp or slipfirewall or masqurading (for diald). I remember when I first installed suse in oct 98 and had similar ppproblems I began to wonder if it was in the kernel as well. I beleive I posted here and was told by someone from suse that ppp was in the kernel. afaik ppp slip fw and ip masq are all included in the stock "IDE" kernel upon install. looking at the suse 5.3 manual pg 268 it says " IF you compile a kernel make sure you include ppp" I read that as if you redo your kernel be sure to *include* ppp--- Although It dosnt come rite out and say its included by default. At any rate I beleive a simple test such as typing in pppd as root should give you a bunch of caracter gibberish if indeed you have pppd rob Linux Home page <A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm"><A HREF="http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A">http://www.connix.com/~dizzy73/LBM.htm</A</A>> -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>