[pptp-server] MPPE died

Andrew W. Davis awdavis at waretec.com
Sun Jul 1 00:34:56 CDT 2001


All I ever use anymore are Intel NIC's.  They are great cards, and at about $30
a piece OEM, you can put 2 in a system at a minimal cost.  That's what all my
VPN boxes out there to date have in 'em.  AND they are actually running in the
kernel as apposed to a module.

Andrew

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:32:25PM -0400, Justin Kreger wrote:
> 
> 
> I have seen the same with certian clones of the DEC Tulip chipset.... but
> then again.... some of those cards (they are most of the very cheap 10/100
> cards.... tipiclly they are everything at best buy, except the 3com stuff,
> and maybe a linksys on an odd day.) won't with even the most recent
> drivers anyway... its weird.... i finally went and got another 3com Vortex
> for that project.
> 
> Justin Kreger, MCP MCSE CCNA
> jkreger at earthling.2y.net jwkreger at uncg.edu justin at wss.net
> 
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, robert wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > I too have found some things just don't work compiled in, but work fine as 
> > modules.  I have the SIS NIC driver that refuses to work when compiled in, 
> > but works just fine as a module.  And this is in the official tree!  I wish I 
> > could explain why.
> > 
> > On Friday 29 June 2001 18:48, Jamin Collins wrote:
> > > Tom Eastep [mailto:teastep at seattlefirewall.dyndns.org] wrote:
> > > > I've found that many features that aren't in Linus's official
> > > > source tree work better when compiled as a module.
> > >
> > > I can't say that I've tried anything other than as a module.  However, it
> > > does seem that we module users are working and those compiling it into the
> > > kernel are not.  Could one or two of you try it as a module and see if that
> > > fixes things?
> > >
> > > Jamin W. Collins
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