Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 08:39:13 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd crashes, was: kde-freebsd] Question about KPPP on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200702100839.18511.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070210164559.1793C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1070210164559.1793C-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au>
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--nextPart1238318.CFC7pYL9t5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 10. February 2007 07:34, Ian Smith wrote: > Since once trying (and failing) to debug or even comprehend a spaghetti > of scripts and configs behind a dialout-only linux pppd setup some years > ago, compared to the much more straightforward ppp with mgetty setup for > both dialout and some dialin modem lines I'd built pretty much from the > FreeBSD Handbook even at 2.2.6 with nary a problem, regressing for sake > of 'compatibility' with a linux-based sub-application seems silly. Well, kppp makes configuring dialout easy. Or attempts to, at least. :) > I agree with you about this not being a KPPP bug (though searching KDE > bugs for 'kppp' provides no shortage of hits!) and appreciate that KDE > people have no interest in catering for user ppp, since it's not linux, > despite or perhaps because of its obvious superiority to FreeBSD people. > > Maybe at least the KPPP 'documentation', such as it is, could at least > mention that it doesn't support FreeBSD's ppp over tun devices, to avoid > the expectation that it should work that gave rise to this thread. It kinda does. It says right in the about dialog and in the very first line= of=20 its online help: "A dialer and front end for pppd". > And yes, if pppd is broken and won't be fixed, it should disappear. And when that happens, so will kppp (it won't build once the if_ppp.h heade= r=20 is gone). Which of course would solve the problem in a way. In any case: I= =20 dragged this issue onto -stable precisely to attract attention to the probl= em=20 and hopefully motivate someone to get down and write some code, whether for= =20 pppd or kppp, I really don't care much. Cheers, =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart1238318.CFC7pYL9t5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFzXamXhc68WspdLARAmVjAJ9trtDykd/LwSnJZvc9KHCUV3dsgwCcCgAg qsdmF3M3VcZWmZpqvb7t+6U= =29M8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1238318.CFC7pYL9t5--
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