Re: [pptp-devel] PPTP terminate-from support

[James C. <qu...@la...>]

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


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