No, PPP was already working. What I forgot was that there are both "IP aliasing" and "Network aliasing" options, and I had only turned one of them on. I turned the other one on, rebooted, and it works. Thanks to all who helped.
It is *SO* nice to be back on Debian. I had been running a bleeding-edge hamm system a few months back and it crashed and wouldn't boot so I figured I'd try Red Hat. Ugh, I hated it. Not anywhere nearly as configurable or slick as Debian. I'm glad to be back and I promise not to go astray again ;-) --Bill. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Le 08-Nov-98, William R. Ward a pris ses électrons pour écrire: >> I had recompiled it a few times, but didn't notice that setting >> before. I now am getting a slightly different error. >> >> SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument >> ppp0:0: unknown interface. >> >> And in /var/log/messages, it says this: >> >> Nov 7 15:41:01 komodo kernel: net_alias_dev_create(ppp0:0): unregistered >> family==2 >> >> Any ideas? > haven't you forgot to put PPP support in kernel ? > /\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\ > Patrick M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.patoche.org/ > Sysadmin of patoche.org, globenet.org, bde.espci.fr -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1803 Mission St. #339 voicemail +1 831/479-4072 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA pager +1 831/458-8862 PGP Key 0x2BD331E5; Public key at http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/pubkey.txt ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better." --Laurie Anderson ("Language Is a Virus" / Home of the Brave)