Thursday 27 December 2012

How to enable PPP Module to a VPS on OpenVZ

Steps to Enable PPP Module in a VPS:

To enable PPP module on a VPS, the Hardware Node should have the following module enabled.
*HN means Hardware Node

HN # modprobe ppp_async
HN # modprobe ppp_deflate
HN # lsmod | grep ppp
ppp_deflate             9793  2
zlib_deflate           21977  1 ppp_deflate
ppp_async              15169  1
crc_ccitt               6337  1 ppp_async
ppp_generic            30165  6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async
slhc                   10561  1 ppp_generic


HN # vzctl stop [VEnumber]
HN # vzctl set [VEnumber] --features ppp:on --save
HN # vzctl start [VEnumber]
HN # vzctl set [VEnumber] --devices c:108:0:rw --save

HN # vzctl exec [VEnumber] mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0
HN # vzctl exec [VEnumber] chmod 600 /dev/ppp


INSIDE THE VPS:
To check whether PPP is enabled or not:

VE# /usr/sbin/pppd

You should see gibberish in the standard output like
~�}#�!}!}!} }4}"}&} } } } }%}&)Q�}4}'}"}(}"p})



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