Re: Re[3]: specific interface

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Bill Unruh wrote:
|On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
|> Upgraded. But, I have unit 3 in options file (tried at the
|> command line also), but still:
|>
|> pppd[10697]: Using interface ppp1
|
|Well, then I do not know. The unit option works such that the system
|tries to use the requested unit, but if that is not available, it will
|just ask for the next available unit. So there may be some reason why 3
|is not available, or perhaps your kernel ppp deos not allow anything but
|the next unit number (you never did tell us which kernel youwere
|running-- sounds like a very old one), but I have no idea if that is the
|problem.

It's almost certainly the problem.  The 2.4.0 kernel was the only one of
the 2.4.x series that pppd 2.3.11 could run under, and the 2.2.x kernel
series doesn't have kernel support for the "unit <n>" option.

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