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

[Ian <Rel...@Hu...>]

G'day Jeff,

  I've been on the list for about 12months, but have never attempted to run
your software (the thing I wanted to use it for has gone away again :-)
I just wanted to let you know that yesterday in my travels I found that 
EtheReal (http://www.ethereal.com/) has L2TP recognition/understanding ..
I don't know how sophisticated their code is (or if you wrote it for them ;)
but I thought I'd point it out .. maybe some friends over there ..

Thanks for reiving this project ... I only recently started my own project
on sourceforge ... and as a "hobby" it really is hard to keep up the
development ...


  ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeff Mcadams" <je...@ig...>
>To: "Scott Balmos" <sco...@ut...>
>Subject:  Re: [L2tpd-devel] 0.64 released, et al
>Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 18:35:27 -0500
>
> 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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