Re: KPPP problem in OBSD 3.1

[Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>]

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 07:59:43 -0400
steve s <schaste@aei.ca> wrote:

> Has anyone had any problems getting kppp going on 3.1? Like an empty
> device list in the Device section? I'd really appreciate a hint here.
> I admit I'm going after kppp for the (potentially) easy setup of ppp
> parameters, but I'm also concerned this may indicate something else
> needs configuration that I've missed. Thanks,

The empty list may be because it is doing an 'ifconfig' which under
Linux lists all network devices. *BSD requires 'ifconfig -a'

You are confusing ppp and pppd. KDE is linux-centric and so I presume
still uses pppd (kernel ppp), which for the major part is compatible
with linux pppd (although missing some features). You may have to make
pppd group-suid root.dailer and make your unprivileged users join the
dialer group.

I have been sucessfully running a pppd setup controlled by CGI I wrote
ages ago for Linux and easily ported to OpenBSD. Moving it to userspace
'ppp' really isn't worth the hassle.

Read the pppd man-page and the Linux PPP-HOWTO and get it working from
the command prompt first. Better still use *BSD 'ppp'.

--Andrew

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