[ale] New kernel, no COMPvpn -- ??

[Chris Ricker]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, John Mills wrote:

> ALErs -
> 
> I just went from 2.4.20 to 2.4.26 kernel by the simple expedient of 
> downloading the tarball, making oldconfig, dep, bzImage, modules, 
> modules_install, install.
> 
> Boots and seems to run fine, but startup fails to start 'vpn' due to 
> a missing 'COMPvpn' module. Sure enough there is such a module in my 
> /lib/modules/2.4.20 but not in ...26. I can't 'find' anything named *vpn* 
> in the source tree, either.
> 
> Is this gone? Should I have it? (I don't actually set up a VPN - just run 
> 'sshd' for remote logins. If it weren't for the log message, I wouldn't 
> even know.)

You probably shouldn't have it if you're not using it. COMPvpn is 
3rd-party software -- it's the binary-only kernel driver for Cisco's 
VPN software.

later,
chris