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I have a RedHat 6.1 box with Dual Pentium-Pro processors. The RH6.1 install correctly identified this and I'm currently using 2-2.12-20smp for i686. When I try to connect via PPP to the internet, I get the following in /var/log/messages: Nov 13 14:59:15 hal diald[1121]: Running pppd (pid = 1197). Nov 13 14:59:15 hal modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 Nov 13 14:59:15 hal pppd[1197]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0 Nov 13 14:59:15 hal pppd[1197]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 13 14:59:15 hal pppd[1197]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 Nov 13 14:59:21 hal pppd[1197]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Nov 13 14:59:48 hal pppd[1197]: Connection terminated. Nov 13 14:59:48 hal pppd[1197]: Exit. I enabled debug for pppd and found this: Nov 13 16:32:09 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [PAP AuthAck id=0x2 "Login Succeeded"] Nov 13 16:32:09 hal pppd[752]: Remote message: Login Succeeded Nov 13 16:32:09 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <compress VJ 0f00> <addr 204.221.242.1>] Nov 13 16:32:12 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <compress VJ 0f00> <addr 204.221.242.1>] Nov 13 16:32:15 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <compress VJ 0f00> <addr 204.221.242.1>] Nov 13 16:32:18 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x4 <compress VJ 0f00> <addr 204.221.242.1>] Nov 13 16:32:22 hal pppd[752]: rcvd [IPCP ConfReq id=0x5 <compress VJ 0f00> <addr 204.221.242.1>] It LOOKS like it can't to VJ header compression. I thought it might have been a mis-compiled kernel so I recompiled make sure PPP was checked as a module (it was). My new kernel still did not work. I will try this with a UP and post the results. Is there a known problem with PPP/SMP/VJ?
I tried the Uniprocessor kernel that the installer installed for me and I had exactly the same results with PPP and VJ.
No, it can certainly do vj compression. Can you give me the output of rpm -q ppp initscripts Thanks.
[tomc@hal tomc]$ rpm -q ppp initscripts ppp-2.3.10-3 initscripts-4.63-1 I forgot to mention that I have basically done a rpm -UvhF *.rpm from the 6.1 updates directory.
Others have reported that adding "novj" to their /etc/ppp/options file improves things for them. This is too rare an occurrence to be sure it's a bug in the Linux ppp driver -- what kind of system is on the other end of the line?
Bug 6993 is being closed because bug was needing info since 2000, and neither original bug reporter or others added any information.