Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Heinz Sporn
Please let me note - for the members of our list that don't share the same insights - that it is not true that Gentoo doesn't support VPN in general. We still have excellent products like OpenVPN. It is just a specific, proprietary VPN protocol implementation that is discussed here. Am Samstag,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:06, Heinz Sporn wrote: Please let me note - for the members of our list that don't share the same insights - that it is not true that Gentoo doesn't support VPN in general. We still have excellent products like OpenVPN. It is just a specific, proprietary VPN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Same here. I use a Cisco VPN client. It simply installs and runs. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: On Sunday 23 January 2005 12:06, Heinz Sporn wrote: Please let me note - for the members of our list that don't share the At work, I use the Cisco VPN client

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Nick Rout
from what i read on the cisco vpn home page http://cco.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/secursw/ps2308/index.html this is an ipsec client. does it connect to a pptp vpn server like the original poster needs? On Mon, January 24, 2005 7:28 am, Brett I. Holcomb said: Same here. I use a Cisco VPN

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll never understand my problems...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Manuel McLure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SimplyMEPIS seems to do so. There is some mention of a pptp client at http://www.mepislovers.org/search.php?action=showallbyusermid=2uid=1422 Note that Gentoo supports PPTP VPNs straight out of the box - it's MPPE-MPPC that isn't supported. Unfortunately, most PPTP VPNs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-23 Thread Barry . Schwartz
Manuel McLure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SimplyMEPIS seems to do so. There is some mention of a pptp client at http://www.mepislovers.org/search.php?action=showallbyusermid=2uid=1422 Note that Gentoo supports PPTP VPNs straight out of the box - it's MPPE-MPPC that isn't supported.

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Peter
On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:54:03 +, Daniel Drake wrote: So, you are correct in saying that Gentoo can't include this right now on our supported kernels. But it is not to say that it never will be supported. Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Nick Smith
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:35 +0300, Peter wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 20:54:03 +, Daniel Drake wrote: So, you are correct in saying that Gentoo can't include this right now on our supported kernels. But it is not to say that it never will be supported. Well. I can't see the future :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Sven Khler
Have you ever tried to install gentoo from live cd that is based on gentoo sources which never had support of M$ vpn and when the only way to internet is to connect to your provider through this vpn? Then you'll never understand my problems... http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76016 I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter wrote: Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... It just seems to me that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Daniel Drake wrote: Peter wrote: Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... It just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Daniel Drake
Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? Yes, or their ISP forces them to use it.. So if the OP had such a router (or, alternatively, if and when I get my bf to switch to Linux, making this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:50, Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? My ISP uses VPN as well, and at the moment I connect via the LAN using software routing on a Windows machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo will never support vpn based on pptp. It's pity but it's fact.

2005-01-22 Thread Holly Bostick
Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 22 January 2005 15:50, Holly Bostick wrote: But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? My ISP uses VPN as well, and at the moment I connect via the LAN using software routing on a