[Devil-linux-develop] Re: PPP on Devil Linux

[Russell C. <ru...@co...>]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:17, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> >>>I am the maintainer of Portslave, a GPL package to add RADIUS client
> >>>functionality to the pppd.
> >>>
> >>>Adding Portslave functionality to Devil Linux would involve a single
> >>>config file (<2K in size) and two shared objects and two binaries that
> >>>are in total ~90K in size on the CD-ROM.  Also it would require a minor
> >>>patch to the pppd.
> >>>
> >>>Let me know if you'd like to do this, I'll be happy to work with whoever
> >>>is doing the pppd package.
> >>
> >>I looked at the site http://master-portslave.linuxrouter.org ( freshmeat
> >>record ) and saw that there was no update since 1999.
> >>I don't want to add software which is not maintained.
> >>Or is there another website?
> >
> >It's project "portslave" on Sourceforge, and it's updated about once a
> > week. The project has been forked many times and you can find many
> > unmaintained versions...
>
> Hi,
>
> ok then this is something different.
> I'm happy to add it to the list.
> It will be included in our next release.

Great!

When you do so please take note of what is done for the Debian distribution 
and do something similar (especially the ./configure stuff).  This requires 
applying 021_setipaddr.diff, 022_lockfile-fix.diff, and 025_packet_count.diff 
to the source for the main pppd but gives the result that Portslave for 
dial-in and a dial-out pppd can both use the same pppd binary saving disc 
space on your CD and saving memory.

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