On Monday 19 January 2004 15:57, Hans du Plooy wrote:
Great! I've been wondering about this too. So how does it work when the server is not SUSE? My flatmate and I run a old P-I for a dial-up gateway and mail retrieval. The box is his so he chooses the OS, and he doesn't like SUSE much. RH7.3 currently, although a change to either Slackware 9.1 or OpenBSD 3.4 is on the cards.
Well, smpppd is basically just a frontend for wvdial, I see no reason why you shouldn't be able to run it on red hat 7.3, assuming wvdial is installed, although it may need to be recompiled, since I'm pretty sure suse has a newer glibc. Another source or problems I can imagine is that you may have to twiddle with paths and things, but with a little TLC it should work Of course, it's entirely possible that someone has made an rpm of smpppd for red hat somewhere, so perhaps you should search for it first