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Hello,

..maybe someone can help me with a strange problem I'm
experiencing with pppd 2.3.5 under Linux 2.2.5:
(same problem with pppd 2.2.x)

When called, pppd complains via syslog that it can't find out
about its interface and then terminates:

  paradis pppd[869]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): Operation not permitted(1)

This results from the following code in .../pppd/sys-linux.c, function
establish_ppp:

 /*
  * Find out which interface we were given.
  */
     if (ioctl(ppp_fd, PPPIOCGUNIT, &x) < 0)
       {
         if ( ! ok_error (errno))
           {
             syslog(LOG_ERR, "ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT): %m(%d)", errno);
             die(1);
           }
       }

The problem occurs only on my Linux 2.2.5 machine and is not
dependant on configuration, i.e. you can call pppd with no options
and an empty /etc/ppp/options file and still get this behaviour.

Ipppd runs fine on the same machine.

Could it be that kernel support for normal ppp and ISDN-syncppp
interfere when both are built as modules?

Thank you for any hint,
--Andreas

Hi,

Quote:> Could it be that kernel support for normal ppp and ISDN-syncppp
> interfere when both are built as modules?

It seems that the precompiled ppp.o module in SuSE 6.1 was flaky.
Recompiling the module solved the problem.

Cheers,
--Andreas