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- From: peter@micromuse.co.uk (Peter Galbavy)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Subject: dp comments (Was: Re: req for advice on using PPP)
- Message-ID: <peter.714383211@hilly>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 07:46:51 GMT
- References: <Bt73Ap.2H4@news.fai.com> <IGNATIOS.92Aug20110623@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
- Organization: MicroMuse Limited, London, England.
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- ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
-
- [About dp-2.2-beta]
-
- > The 2.2-beta version has some minor Makefile/include file problems
- > (Kirk has my diffs for it), and tends to crash when you have an
- > error in the configuration script (deref'ing zero pointers), but
- > works like a charm otherwise, AND IT SUPPORTS LOADABLE KERNEL
- > MODULES... at least half (i.e., you can load them, but if you do
- > the unloading, the system crashes when it tries to do networking
- > again). But I think it's better to only reboot the machine to
- > remove or update the ppp if you want it, than to built a new kernel
- > and reboot the machine :-) Maybe SUN never tested this part of
- > their Kernel code? I think they don't have any loadable network
- > modules of their own.
-
- This is not so much a SUN problem, as me. With the help of Paul Fox
- (paul@crisp.demon.co.uk) I tried *really* hard to get the unloading
- working, but I was/am having problems with removing routing records
- to the interface... as I do not have the SunOS source I cannot see
- what I am doing wrong. The code in dp-2.2-beta is almost the latest
- that I have, but my time is being spent at the moment getting the
- dp package going on 386BSD.
-
- >I used both packages. I like the latter better, because it's less work
- >and less to backup if you want to install it, and because I won't get
- >'how is the ppp startup command' phone calls all the time.
-
- The main reason for the loadable modules was to "supplement" the dial-
- on-demand support, so that the whole thing could be got going easily.
-
- >BTW: nfs? You might want to completely avoid it. Try mounting a remote
- > filesystem to get the feeling. Basically, you have to avoid
- > anything which does stats because they cause lots of traffic, and
- > anything which does writes because nfs writes always wait for the
- > 'written to disk' confirmation from the other side.
-
- I only use NFS for mounting things like gatekeeper.dev.com and so on
- for reading, and it is fine. I have not tried writing, but I can
- imagine :-)
-
- For those who may be interested or would like to help, I have got to
- it all compile on 386BSD (except the kernel drivers of course), and I
- will be using the ppp from Brad Parker (brad@cayman.com) as a starting
- point. I need pre-alpha testers (like not so much testing as telling
- me where I f*cked up). Also, has anyone completed the tunneling driver
- that Bill Jolitz included in 0.1 ?
-
- Anyway, enough for now,
- --
- Peter Galbavy
- Tech Support, Micromuse Ltd
- Phone: +44 71 352 7774 E-Mail: P.Galbavy@micromuse.co.uk
-