"Steven T. Hatton" wrote:
Nick and All,
I am a bit confused as to what I do to patch the kernel for pppoed. I tried to patch the 2.2.13 kernel with the 2.2.12 patch and it indicated parts of the patch were already there.
Are you patching against the SuSE kernel src or a virgin src? The SuSE kernel may already have the patches applied. OTOH The impression I was given was to repatch with each new version of Jamal's client. Just in case. patch -r should remove the old patches.
Am I to assume the 2.2.13 kernel has support for pppoed in the source tree?
SuSE's may. The tarball straight from Linus doesn't. 2.4 may.
If I run xconfig should I see a pppoed option in the GUI?
From make menuconfig [my firewall is way to old to handle X well-)] under network devices I see tty support for PPP over X. I needed to build it into the kernel [no module] even though the readme claims modules are now supported. Thats with 2.2.14 and Jamal's 0.44. There are newer releases from Jamal but the system has been stable since I built 0.44 so I'm not changing until I need to.
Do I have to manually edit the config file?
Which config? If you mean the kernel config then everything shows up with menuconfig and should show up with the X client. If you mean the PPP options file then yes.
Is the kernel space pppoed noticeably superior to the user space, rp pppoed?
I've never used the roaring penguin client. Jamal's client has been pretty good for me. The only issue has been the odd disconnect [about every 3 weeks] Before that I used the kernel client for the 2.3.x series of kernels. If it wasn't for my distrust of development kernels I would have stuck with that. My understanding is the biggest draw of the RP client is it's easy to setup. It will use a little more resources but not enough to matter IMHO. The kernel clients are more effort to setup. Looking at the revision list for Jamal's 0.46 client it looks like they are trying to make it easier to setup.
What's the latest version of pppoed that works with 2.2.13?
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