Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014, 19:18:29 schrieb [email protected]: > Hi all, >... > Personally, I'd like install-service-pppoe to stay as well. Sure, if it > causes maintainance trouble or confuses people, its more consistent to > "archive" those lines together with rp-pppoe. But as long it does > not hurt, its a benefit for people like me who will continue using > rp-pppoe to get into internet, no matter whether its in the book or not... > > Uwe I'd also prefer that pppoe stuff is kept available. I can understand that an unmaintained page is somewhat "evil" but like Uwe pointed out i also think that many users are still using pppoe to get to the internet. I know, the DSL routers are quite good nowadays but there may be some people (at least one, me) who are using simply a DSL modem and do the DSL connect via a Linux box using pppoe/iptables and such. Probably the enormous detailed description (gprs/edge, dialup, pppoatm) on the ppp page is the reason why there is hardly an editor who can test it in all its capabilities. Most of them who do the DSL connection by their own, will use pppoe for their DSL connection (i think). To do that, the ppp page is still valid for that, even the version of 2.4.5 is still accurate. The only thing is to update the service scripts.
So my question is a) are there (really not enough) people out there who are using ppp to connect to internet so it would make sense to think about a reanimation of ppp at all? b) could a reduction of ppp to pppoe only (moving the remainder to the wiki) motivate some editors/users to bring the page uptodate? It seems so that this is a more or less one-time job as there is no further development at the ppp package (2.4.5 is of 2009). The work is more in the service scripts. -- Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
