[pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading after upg rade

Thu Aug 22 07:11:19 CDT 2002

Hi Andy,

i did this...

wrote a small script in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ppp-mods then put the link in the
rc3.d directory so it starts everytime...of course if you are setup for
runlevel 3 in your inittab.

kevin

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Andrew Lyon wrote:

> All compiled and working ok, but again it doenst load the module
> automatically, I think there is either a bug in the latest ppp-mppe rpm or a
> bug in my setup!, for now I've put modprobe ppp_generic in my rc.local which
> fixes the problem.
>
> andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lyon
> Sent: 22 August 2002 12:23
> To: 'R. de Vroede'
> Cc: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading after upg
> rade
>
>
> Yes!,
>
> I'm trying something else now, I usually try to keep my servers RPM only,
> although on my own workstation I do things very differently, for this reason
> I have been using the pptp and ppp-mppe rpms for quite a while, but instead
> of using kernel rpms which include ppp-mppe, I usually just install the
> latest redhat kernel source rpms, and patch it for ppp_mppe, for the
> standard redhat 7.3 kernel source rpms and all versions upto 2.4.18-5, I
> used the 2.4.16 kernel patch, which worked fine, I've noticed a new patch at
> http://planetmirror.com/pub/mppe/ for 2.4.19, I just tried to apply it to
> 2.4.18-10 , I applied more cleanly than the 2.4.16 patch so perhaps it will
> work !
>
> I'll let you know.
>
> andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. de Vroede [mailto:r.devroede at linvision.com]
> Sent: 22 August 2002 12:22
> To: Andrew Lyon
> Subject: RE: [pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading after upg
> rade
>
>
> You DID enable it in the kernel did you?
>
> On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:42, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> > I've just noticed that I cannot run pppd manually:
> >
> > pppd
> > pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP.  This could be because
> > the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not
> > included in the kernel configuration.  If PPP was included as a
> > module, try `/sbin/modprobe -v ppp'.  If that fails, check that ppp.o
> > exists in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net. See README.linux file in the
> > ppp distribution for more details.
> >
> > Which is obviously the cause of the errors from ppptpd!
> >
> > Here is my entire modules.conf
> >
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias eth0 3c59x
> > alias eth1 3c59x
> > alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
> > alias usb-controller usb-uhci
> > alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> > #alias ppp ppp_generic
> > alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
> > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> > alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> > alias net-pf-47 ip_gre
> > alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> > alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> > alias sound-slot-0 sb
> > post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L
> > >/dev/null
> > 2>&1 || :
> > pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S
> > >/dev/null
> > 2>&1 || :
> > options sound dmabuf=1
> > alias synth0 opl3
> > options opl3 io=0x388
> > options sb isapnp=1
> > alias char-major-108 off # This will be different for 2.3.x kernels
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: R. de Vroede [mailto:r.devroede at linvision.com]
> > Sent: 22 August 2002 11:31
> > To: Andrew Lyon
> > Subject: RE: [pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading after
> > upg rade
> >
> >
> > The 'alias char-major-108 ppp_generic' should do the magic. Maybe you
> > should move it up, above the other ppp modules. Just a guess.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Richard
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 12:11, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> > > Just tried that still get the same error, modprobe -v ppp_generic
> > > fixed it again... Strange!
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: R. de Vroede [mailto:r.devroede at linvision.com]
> > > Sent: 22 August 2002 11:03
> > > To: Andrew Lyon
> > > Cc: 'pptp-server at lists.schulte.org'
> > > Subject: Re: [pptp-server] Ppp modules not automatically loading
> > > after upgrade
> > >
> > >
> > > remove alias ppp ppp_generic from /etc/modules.conf and run depmod
> > > -a
> > > This is a little inherited mistake.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Richard de Vroede
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 11:50, Andrew Lyon wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I just performed some RPM upgrades on our Redhat 7.3 server, I
> > > > upgraded the kernel rpms to 2.4.18-10, I applied the patch for
> > > > ppp_mppe to the kernel source and compiled both the kernel and
> > > > modules successfully.
> > > >
> > > > I also upgraded from ppp-mppe-2.4.1-5 to ppp-mppe-2.4.1-7.
> > > >
> > > > Before this upgrade, the server would boot up and start up
> > > > services, including pptpd which would all work perfectly.
> > > >
> > > > After this upgrade, I get errors when clients attempt to connect
> > > > to
> > > > pptpd:
> > > >
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL: Starting call
> > > > (launching pppd, opening GRE) Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer
> > > > pptpd[1966]:
> > > > GRE:
> > > > read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1 error
> > > > = Input/output error Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL:
> > > > PTY read or GRE write failed
> > > > (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:09 LinuxServer pptpd[1966]: CTRL: Client x.x.x.x control
> > > > connection finished Aug 22 10:42:17 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL:
> > > > Client x.x.x.x control connection started
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: Starting call
> (launching
> > > > pppd, opening GRE)
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: GRE:
> > > > read(fd=5,buffer=804d9c0,len=8196) from PTY failed: status = -1
> > > > error
> =
> > > > Input/output error
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: PTY read or GRE
> > > > write
> > > failed
> > > > (pty,gre)=(5,6)
> > > > Aug 22 10:42:19 LinuxServer pptpd[1969]: CTRL: Client x.x.x.x
> > > > control connection finished
> > > >
> > > > I realised that ppp is not loading the ppp module (ppp_generic)
> > > > automatically, I checked my modules.conf which appears to be
> > > > correct:
> > > >
> > > > alias ppp ppp_generic
> > > > alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe
> > > > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> > > > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> > > > alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
> > > > alias net-pf-47 ip_gre
> > > > alias char-major-108 ppp_generic
> > > > alias tty-ldisc-3 ppp_async
> > > > alias tty-ldisc-14 ppp_synctty
> > > >
> > > > If I modprobe -v ppp, the ppp_generic module loads, and clients
> > > > can connect without any problems.
> > > >
> > > > andy
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