[3849] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Post installation problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnie Barnes)
Mon Nov 11 09:21:03 1996
To: Chaimf@cris.com
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:25:00 EST."
<9611110425.AA06436@voyager.cris.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:18:18 -0500
From: Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com>
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Your message on: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:25:00 EST
>Oops, you are correct. They *are* ip-{up,down} a typo. However,
>I'm not discussing the *arguments* I'm discussing the environment
>variables.
Oops...you are correct.
>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?
Well, I don't know anything about the passing of environment
vars to those scripts, but the "change" wouldn't be documented
because you are using two entirely different ways to bring up
PPP. Our scheme doesn't use dip at all.
>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.
Then you may want to find another way to setup things...I'm
not sure the environment is going to be preservable.
>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.
I don't know. You'll have to poke at the sources. If it's not
enabled and is a build time option, that just means we don't
support IPX over PPP out of the box. :-)
--Donnie
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