[3805] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Post installation problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chaimf@cris.com)
Sun Nov 10 23:31:14 1996
From: Chaimf@cris.com
To: djb@redhat.com (Donnie Barnes)
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:25:00 -0500 (EST)
Cc: chaimf@cris.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611110417.XAA29543@redhat.com> from "Donnie Barnes" at Nov 10, 96 11:17:08 pm
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Oops, you are correct. They *are* ip-{up,down} a typo. However,
I'm not discussing the *arguments* I'm discussing the environment
variables.
Under RedHat 3.0.3, which by default used dip. I rewrote my own scripts
to bring ppp (one of three service providers) and to appropriately
modify /etc/resolv.conf to point at the correct domain and nameservers.
But for this to work properly, I needed to pass through the ISP
which I did in an environment variable. Is this change documented
anywhere?
I checked that this is the problem by adding various echo and
env statements to the ip-up script. All that gets passed is a
bare bones environment.
As for IPX, It is obvious that someone thinks that it works,
just read the man page. And as for not being in there do a
strings on pppd, nothing with ipx in it.
Err, it can be working fine, it doesn't do what it is documented
to perform.... Either this is a documentation bug, or a configuration
option.
<chaim>
Donnie Barnes wrote:
>
> Your message on: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:05:46 EST
> >Some strange changes have come over ppp-2.2.0f-2 from the version
> >that came with RedHat 3.0.3
> >
> >1. Environment variable are not passed from ppd to /etc/ppd/if-{up,down}
>
> Are you sure? That should be /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down. Create an
> ip-up that looks like:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> echo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 > /tmp/args
>
> Then do a chmod 755 on it, then bring up ppp. See what /tmp/args has
> to say...
>
> >2. The manual pages now document a series of ipx-* options that ppd
> >barfs on. Is this a bug, the way redhat configured pppd, or some
> >confused installtion?
>
> Well, ppp-2.2.0f is what we ship and works fine. The IPX stuff is
> for routing IPX over PPP, and I've never done it, now do I know if
> it works. Anyone out there try it?
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