Thomas Trepl wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014, 19:18:29 schrieb dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de: >> 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?
I doubt it. The page was archived in October 2012 and this is the first comment about that. > 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. I'd recommend a hint if you really want to pursue it. ppp is really old technology. Perhaps there are some in the world still using it but I don't think there are many BLFS users. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
