further preparations done (was: Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:44:00PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > b. Porting ppp. I have now prepared a ppp source tar file which is hacked to compile the lot of the source files cleanly. This involved providing a few preprocessor symbols (MAXHOSTNAMELEN, MAXPATHLEN, _BSD_VA_LIST_) and messing a

Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Here is what you need: > > Current CVS Hurd, at least the pfinet directory. > > The patch from > > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/files/pfinet-tun-20001005.diff.gz > > You should go ahead and check your code in, Marcus. Done. T

Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-05 Thread Roland McGrath
> Here is what you need: > Current CVS Hurd, at least the pfinet directory. > The patch from > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/files/pfinet-tun-20001005.diff.gz You should go ahead and check your code in, Marcus. > a. Porting netgraph and mpd, which uses netgraph. Don't mess with this. When I su

someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I have finished my work on the tunnel interface so far[1] that I think someone can have a go at porting user space ppp. Don't count on me[2], I took a look at it, and it's quite ugly, because ppp does a lot of things we don't support, so you have to butcher to code a bit. See below for some ti