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Interesting. I tried here with a couple of Linux machines connected via serial ports, and the number of bytes sent is reasonable. What is the nature of the underlying connection...

@enaess how do we get a pre-built configure script included in the generated tarball?

Sounds like your runtime system is missing a library which is available in your cross-compile build environment. Check that libutil.so.1 exists somewhere in the filesystem of the machine you're trying...

The buffer is volatile because other programs could potentially mmap it and access it concurrently, and so we want to limit reordering of accesses by the compiler. Volatile is not...

This all sounds reasonable at first glance. What functions would pppd need to call to read the user and password values?

Seems reasonable, but I want to hear from @enaess. Any particular reason why you made a separate 'if' block rather than adding to the existing one?

> @Neustradamus Would it be acceptable to use netlink to add the routes, and fallback to ioctl should that fail? Seems fair...