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Sven Köhler wrote: |
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>at the moment, /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/rp-pppoe.so is installed by |
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>net-dialup/ppp - nothing special - well, it's not a very recent version. |
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>In the syslog it says: |
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>RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.3 compiled against pppd 2.4.2 |
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>On the other hand, i've got net-dialup/rp-pppoe-3.8 installed and it |
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>installs a symlink: |
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>/etc/ppp/plugins/rp-pppoe.so -> /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/rp-pppoe.so |
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>Is this symlink needed? And why is it installed by rp-pppoe? |
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>(And is the /etc/ppp/plugins dir needed at all? What do plugins do in |
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>/etc/ppp/plugins? Don't they belong to /usr/lib/pppd/2.4.2/ ?) |
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That is the place where pppoe-server search for the plugin. |
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Btw, the PPPoE server is the only useful part of net-dialup/rp-pppoe |
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from Gentoo pov, the client part being surclassed by the generic pppd.sh |
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net module available in baselayout-1.12*. |
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>Well, yet another question: |
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>ppp-2.4.2 now includes the rp-pppoe.so plugins from rp-pppoe - do the |
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>ppp-people maintain that module by themselfs now? Or do they just |
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>download the plugin from the rp-pppoe-people and include it in their |
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>sources? I can imagine a ppp-ebuild that downloads a more recent version |
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>of rp-pppoe and builds the rp-pppoe.so-plugins directly from the |
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>rp-pppoe sources instead of using the ppp-sources. |
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rp-pppoe plugin had been within ppp tarball for quite some time (see for |
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how long from upstream cvsweb at |
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http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ppp/pppd/plugins/rp-pppoe/). |
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It has been contributed by RoaringPenguin but from that day on, it has |
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been maintained by Paul MacKerras (the ppp upstream). |
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Maybe is just me, but I consider ppp to be the upstream when it comes to |
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rp-pppoe pppd's plugin. I don't care that 3.3 < 3.8 since the actual |
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rp-pppoe plugin is a modified version of the one original. |
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Unless someone finds a bug or a new feature that needs to be implemented |
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in rp-pppoe plugin (which I very much doubt it), I will change nothing |
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(and even then, I will prefer to patch the ppp sources). |
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