On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 03:45:25PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:00:53AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > > If um-pppd is unwelcome in the debian archives, why not > > add it temporarily in the hurd sources, perhaps with the > > intent of turning it later into a ppp translator? > > sounds like a good idea; then we don't have to maintain the part > of ppp that traditionally lived in userland, since we have it > in debian's ppp package (which is kernel-agnostic) > > i don't have time (or interest) for this myself. could someone add to > the Hurd's task list in Savannah about writing an interface-compatible > ppp translator?
Interface compatible to what? The um-pppd package comes from BSD, and the pfinet tunnel device is interface compatible to BSD's tunnel device. So we already do what you suggest: The traditional userland (um-pppd) is not maintained by us, and we provide a compatible interface in the Hurd. We just don't use the Linux approach but the BSD approach, which is more in line with our design. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
