Re[2]: this system lacks PPP kernel support

Marc SCHAEFER (schaefer@alphanet.ch)
20 Jan 2000 1908:46:22 +0100


PeterChen <peter@comchina.com> wrote:
>    I just update the ppp2.2.0 with ppp2.3.11,not rebuilt my kernel.
> It worked. It seem  mgetty can work with newer PPP.:)

mgetty-1.1.21 (and below, down to 1.1.17) work without any problem with
pppd-2.2.0. I have two installations running that version.

If pppd works stand alone, there is no reason why it shouldn't work
with mgetty/vgetty, since mgetty/vgetty only detects the frame and then
the control goes to pppd.