Re: [L2tpd-devel] 0.64 released, et al

[Jeff M. <je...@ig...>]

Also sprach Scott Balmos
>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/l2tpd/l2tpd-0.64.tar.gz (apparently
>the file release area says the release exists, but no files are
>added...  It's there, believe me)

Yup, confirmed...the files are there.  May have just taken the
sourceforge pages some time to update behind the scenes or something
*shrug*

>I would *really* love to take this thing farther, and I know it'll
>continue to do so... But should I be the project maintainer if I can't
>even really follow the code?

There's more to being a project maintainer than just coding on the
software...though that's really not an answer to your question.

>Does anyone else out there want to become a project manager? At the
>moment, Jeff is our Alan Cox, as I like to call him. He deals with the
>bugfixes and all that fun. But really I think there needs to be a
>complete rewrite, audit, whatever you want to call it, that puts us
>into the kernelspace. This CVS tree has been set up for a long while,
>as l2tpd-devel, and was to be the 0.7 tree (devel releases would be
>like 0.701, and 0.71 through 0.75 would be matching the functionality
>of the existing 0.6 tree). That, unfortunately, is completely out of my
>realm (reentrant kernel code scares me. :D), and as Jeff said, he only
>has about the first 20 lines of the kernel module template.

>We need a project manager that can spearhead the bleeding edge 0.7
>rewrite... Anyone??? :)

If noone else steps up to the plate...I could probably take on a more
active role.  It'd be nice to have someone that has a little more time
to put into it than I have as well...though I realize that there just
plain may not be someone that has the time and inclination to do that
out there.


Funny anecdote...tangentially related to the topic at best...

Was working with RedBack today (our SMS 500 decided to reboot with
*alarming* regularity) and at one point, dude at RedBack asked me if we
had anyone connecting with l2tpd as the LAC to our SMS as the LNS.  I
kinda chuckled and said, "yeah...a few."  He said that some of the
versions of AOS on the RedBack's had trouble with some things that l2tpd
did.  I chuckled again and said, "Can you get me details?  You see..."
and then I promptly when on to explain the situation as it exists wrt to
l2tpd.  Dude laughed and said he'd put me in touch with one of their
developers about it ASAP.  Turns out that it was purely a bug in AOS,
and was not anything l2tpd was doing wrong (which kinda surprised me!),
but that the developer would certainly keep my name and email on hand
for any other issues that come up.  :)
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