Re: PPP

[Neal H Walfield]

> (I disable logging because a bug in the glibc package prevents syslog
> from working correctly, this bug is fixed in CVS since quite a while.
> If you have the poll fix then you can enable logging).

... using `set log all' instead of `set log -all'.

> However, the main point is:  ping works, some basic stuff works, and it
> should be possible to debug the remaining problems without too much hassles.
> The main candidates for the problems are um-pppd (in particular the tty
> backend of it) and the term translator.

I doubt this as that file is hardly changed.  In fact, the only change
in that file is to allow it to compile under GNU/Linux.  So, if it is
broken under the Hurd, it will likely have also been broken under BSD.

>  Neal and me tested ppp over ethernet
> (_not_ what you know as PPPoE), and it worked just fine.

We tested ppp over tcp/ip.