Hi Michael (Michael L. Hitch), in <9509171730.AA09737@gemini.oscs.montana.edu> on Sep 17 you wrote:

> On Sep 17, 10:10am, Tom Hayko wrote:
> > I've compile my own kernel from some recent sources (sorry can't remember the
> > exact date I got them), and I'm having some trouble with PPP.  I get connected
> > but I'm only able to ping the IP address of the host I connected to.  Whenever
> > I try to ping anything by name, I get the "unknown host" message.  I've tried
> > reading the networking FAQ, but I seem to be doing everything correctly.  Can
> > anybody give me a hint as to what I may be doing wrong?  I had this working
> > before, if only my other drive hadn't crashed :(
>
>   Did you rebuild pppd as well?  PPP was updated to a newer version, and the
> old pppd won't work with the -current kernel's PPP code.
>
> Michael
>

I'm running with the -current snapshot from ftp.uni-regensberg.de.  Is there any
way to tell if the version of pppd that I'm running is new enough to work with
the kernel I'm running?



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Tom Hayko
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