Upgrading to 2.0

[mdulcey at pryder.pn.com (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Rich Braun wrote:

> The new way of doing these apparently is loadable modules.  But the PPP
> how-to doesn't talk about these; if I try to run the stock pppd from
> Slackware 3.0.0 on the new setup, it complains (even though I said yes
> to PPP in the config dialog):
> 
>   Sorry - PPP is not available on this system

You have to use PPP 2.2.0 with a new kernel.  The latest version is 
2.2.0f, which is available on Sunsite and the usual mirrors.

> As for running Apache, it appears that the new kernel supports IP aliasing,
> but the Slackware 'ifconfig' program doesn't support the alias keyword.  The
> kludge I have been using is to build a kernel with lots of dummyXX devices.

I haven't done this, but you might have a look at the Virtual Hosting howto.