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I have been working on a net.ppp0 that actually works. |
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The goals I had in mind was: |
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1) Easy to setup. No big hassle for end user or when doing |
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bootstrap. |
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2) Not that complex, but flexible enouth for most common |
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setup's. Should also allow user to use his own config |
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if he require a more arcane setup. |
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3) Should be universal for common setup's. |
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Now, so far it is working for me, but i assume that not all |
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countries/isp's have the same chat scripts, etc, but you |
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should be able to setup something generic that should cover |
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most. |
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In trying to do this, I want to ask developers (also any of |
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our experienced users) using a ppp connection to test this. |
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Also, please dont commit any changes to CVS, but mail me the |
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diffs rather, as I would like to oversee changes until we have |
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a nice stable release. |
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How it works, is the user change the values at the top of |
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net.ppp0 (like net.eth0, etc), and then net.ppp0 uses that |
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to build the secrets files, the peers file, the chat file, |
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etc. This should be ok for most setups I think, and more |
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specialized setups should not be covered by this script, as |
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we are not a newbie distro. This auto gen of scripts can |
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anyhow be disabled, so it will work with specialized setups |
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without a major hacking effort. |
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The main catch 21 is probably going to be with the chat script, so what |
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i would appreciate, is if you are required to |
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make changes, make it to /usr/lib/ppp/chat-default, and mail |
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me the diffs. Try to keep in mind that it should still work |
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for other people if possible. |
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To install, merge ppp-2.4.1-r6.ebuild (masked), and cp the |
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._cfg_000_net.ppp0 to net.ppp0. Just make sure to backup |
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/etc/ppp/*, as most files in there is going to be overwritten. |
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Also note that /etc/ppp/options is not touched, so other pppd |
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options can be put in there, or specified with the PPPOPTIONS. |
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As im tired, please forgive if not too clean, and feel free |
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to drop me a mail if there is questions. |
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Greetings, |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer |
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Cape Town, South Africa |
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