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Re: ppp
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Daniel E Baumann |
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Re: ppp |
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Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:07:20 -0500 |
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 09:39:44AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > The LSMers said let there be ppp. And there was:
> >
> > ftp://walfield.org/pub/people/neal/ppp/ppp-latest.tar.gz
>
> There is now a new version -- same location. I went ahead and
> downloaded the latest version of the upstream packages (ppp-010718) and
> was about to merge my changes in when I realized that the port had
> originally been done completely wrong -- all that was done was cut out
> code rather than make a few small changes. I therefore redid the entire
> thing. It is 100% ported to GNU/Hurd, 90% to GNU/Linux (it does not
> automatically setup the tunnel interface nor do we do routing or arp).
Well it's nice to know that I did something completely wrong.
> When I saw ported, I mean that I see the same behavior on GNU/Hurd and
> GNU/Linux minus things we do not (yet) support. Which implies, there
> are
> a few upstream bugs and I hope to merge in the new code. Yes, I just
> checked, he released something today. I will merge this is and finish
> off the Linux stuff. Then I will submit it upstream.
>
> Ok. Show me your appreciation and tell me that it works and what does
> not.
>
Wasn't breaking out those files that needed multiple changes into their own copy
in a hurd subdirectory much cleaner and saner than sprinkling those files with
#ifdef this #ifndef that (and no I am not talking about the conditionals for
headers, but the ones for whole different function implementations)?
Dan
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- ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/18
- Re: ppp, Thomas Bushnell, BSG, 2001/07/18
- Re: ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/24
- Re: ppp, Philip Charles, 2001/07/25
- Re: ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/26
- Re: ppp, Philip Charles, 2001/07/26
- Re: ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/27
- Re: ppp,
Daniel E Baumann <=
- Re: ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/26
- Re: ppp, Daniel E Baumann, 2001/07/18
- Re: ppp, Neal H Walfield, 2001/07/24