Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:45:14 +0100 (GMT/BST) | From | Mike Jagdis <> | Subject | Re: diald and ppp under 2.3.18 |
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On 22 Oct 1999 inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote:
> The following feature appeared in the new version of ppp driver. > > diald uses ioctl PPPIOCGUNIT on terminal device to get the ppp unit > number attached to the terminal. In the new ppp driver there is no > such ioctl in ppp_async.c. I solved the problem so far by simply > adding this ioctl to ppp_async, but I am not quite sure it is a good > solution. Is there any another method to deal with this problem, or > this ioctl was simply forgotten?
This is essential. Without it only pppd can know what unit was allocated for a particular line. Without knowing the unit we cannot know which interface we have just started.
Mike
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