Subject: Re: pppd
To: Michael G. Schabert <mikeride@prez.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: current-users
Date: 05/13/2000 11:07:58
>
>>Umm, how can you say that that "didn't break it"? It certainly wasn't 
>>broken hard, but it was broken. On "anything else like it"...I 
>>decided to roll a kernel without the IPv6 functionality in it (paring 
>>down unused options) and was hosed when I rebooted the kernel...The 
>>kernel worked fine, but I work on my BSD box remotely with the BSD 
>>box doing auto-dialin to my ISP. When I rebooted w/o v6 support, that 
>>broke my pppd. I couldn't even use pppd with the noipv6 line in the 
>>options file. That cut me off from the BSD box until I could get 
>>there to access it locally. I consider that to be EXTREMELY broken.
>
>	When did your pppd breakage happen??  Please report the breakage if
>	there is.  Please.

	after Apr 20 2000, it should work fine even if you don't have kernel
	support for AF_INET6 socket.
	http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/basesrc/usr.sbin/pppd/pppd/sys-bsd.c

itojun