Okay, people, it comes not often that two people want to do the work...
please share the work, feel free to ask me about details if needed.
#include hallo.h
* Peter Samuelson [Mon, Mar 01 2004, 01:04:04PM]:
I know you have offers for this already, but a friend just pointed out
to me that pppoeconf is up for adoption, and I was interested in
working on it anyway. I'm not a DD, so I would need a sponsor for this
package - maybe you, maybe someone else. I am quite good at shell
scripting, and have done some Debian packaging (mostly for private
purposes).
The reason I was already thinking about pppoeconf is that I wanted to
add support for setting up kernel-mode pppoe. The 'pppoe' kernel
module is available on Linux 2.4/2.6 and recent versions of pppd, and
this mode does not require the userspace 'pppoe' package at all. As I
understand it, it should be a bit more efficient than user-mode pppoe.
(I use kernel-mode pppoe, and it works fine, but I haven't done
benchmarks on CPU load or anything.)
I just downloaded pptp-linux, and it looks like support for PPTP would
not be difficult to add either. The difficulty with *that* is the need
for an external kernel module; 'kernel-patch-mppe' is around, and
apparently an alternative module exists somewhere which does not
require kernel patching. I'm unsure whether or not to try and support
PPPoA as well; I just don't know anything about that.
I'd like to maintain pppoeconf, but if you would rather keep it, I can
just start to produce patches for these features, and you can apply
them on their merits.
Peter
#include hallo.h
* Igor Morgado [Mon, Mar 01 2004, 04:28:58AM]:
--- Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
#include hallo.h
* Igor Morgado [Sun, Feb 22 2004, 10:55:48PM]:
I'm interessed in adopt and improve pppoeconf. I'm
willing to become a debian developer and I always
help
with debian and opensource.
I'm a real user of pppoe, I work to a telecom
company
in my country and I have a good knowledge in shell
(I'm writing a book in portuguese), in C, perl and
another shamefull languages (intercal, C# :-).
I have a sponsor already and I want that you help
me
in this journey. If you have some time, we can
talk
about new improvisations in pppoeconf
I have some time now (only now) but no motivation to
work on it. If you
send me some patches, I will happily accept them.
But I am not willing
to give the package away just to change the
maintainer. Bad experiences
in teh past, many people want to have
basedebs-packages just for their
ego but do not work on them as needed.
I can do a better portuguese localization too!
You can, but you did not so far. That is the
difference.
MfG,
Eduard.
I understood very well, but ego isn't my bussines..
Ok.
I'm was thinking in do some patches as pppoeconf
debconf support, ppptp confs in debconf and some
special post authentications methods used in my
country :-) a kind of authentication after pppoe
authentication using http request to open ISP's
firewall.
In nexte weekend I will do that, cause I'm working in
my personal DJB tools packaging to personal use. I
will give you some reports (and patches).
See in the next week. My icq number is 51528673.
Tkz for answer me.
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