From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 22:48:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922B037B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-104-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.104.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3F843F75 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8628966B60; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 633E3BCE; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:48:14 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Message-ID: <20030712054814.GA58001@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030711044602.58539.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030711044602.58539.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution)) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:48:20 -0000 --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:46:02AM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi; >=20 > I wanted to bring this up a little later but since there is a somewhat re= lated > thread I thought I might as well bring this now. Our default PPPd is extr= emely > outdated. The version in the distribution is a patched-up version of Paul= 's PPP > 2.3.5 which is maintained now at http://dp.samba.org/ppp/. Version 2.3.5 = is > obsoleted and the latest version doesn't support *BSD. The main problem involved in updating it has merging the FreeBSD changes into the significantly different pppd code. If the Debian people have done this, then it could be updated - you didn't post a link to the patches though. Kris --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/D6EeWry0BWjoQKURArdLAKDq7cRw2P9hN7RX6V4jRgv93Ej/1QCeIQHj Gr/DPep7RQGgpWvB4hq42tw= =Ccqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ--