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SubjectRe: diald and ppp under 2.3.18
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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