[3880] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Post installation problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chaimf@cris.com)
Mon Nov 11 12:58:52 1996
From: Chaimf@cris.com
To: djb@redhat.com (Donnie Barnes)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:39:00 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Chaimf@cris.com, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611111418.JAA06604@redhat.com> from "Donnie Barnes" at Nov 11, 96 09:18:18 am
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Donnie Barnes wrote:
> >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.
This is *nix man, environments are passed, *UNLESS* someone does
something to override it. So either this is a compile time options
to ppp build, or something changed in ppp's design that they decided
to suppress the environment.
For the while, and it is cleaner, but more akward, I'm using ipparam
which sends a $6 to the ip-{up,down} script.
However, it still is a pain, to go find why things have broken. The
problem is that *everything* can change when going with a new release
of a distribution. Some form of consolidated readme for changes that
effect customization would be appreciated.
> >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. :-)
True, but you do support in some fashion ipx out of the box,
with some of the other RPM's. So lets go for consistency.
Which brings up another point, the netcfg, has no options for configuring
ipx.
<chaim>
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