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From: James C. <qu...@la...> - 2020-09-08 08:08:20
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Thanks. Your patch did not apply using "git am", possibly because it was not against master branch, so it was merged by hand. I took the opportunity to remove some trailing spaces. On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 04:57:52PM +0200, Hrvoje Cavrak wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to try and submit a patch for a feature I needed and had to > implement myself, so my reasoning was to try and help someone else and > the project as well. > > TL;DR - I wasn't able to connect to some Cisco gear, the admin kept > mentioning he set terminate-from to something he provided and I need > to set my hostname. I had no idea what he was on about, but decided to > investigate. > > Cisco gear apparently can assign users to different VPDN groups using > terminate-from option. This references to the hostname field in the > PPTP control header that is hardcoded to "local" in Linux PPTP client. > This option merely provides user the means to specify the client > hostname that's going to be reported to the server. If nothing is > provided, it defaults to local and there is no change in behavior. > Other PPTP stacks can do this apparently (MikroTik routers for > example) so I thought it would be cool if Linux could as well :) > > I would like to thank everyone for the hard work in maintaining this > alive. Apparently legacy systems are pretty much all around us and > having software that works is a great thing. > > Cheers! > > Hrvoje -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ |