severity 263224 serious reassign 262941 modutils severity 262941 serious merge 262941 263224 thanks
#include <hallo.h> * Vassilii Khachaturov [Fri, Aug 13 2004, 08:50:58AM]: > The thing that happens as a by-product of pppoeconf that enables the > pppoe to work later on is the loading of the pppoe module. So to have > pppoe working after reboot, `modprobe pppoe' is needed before `pon > dsl-provider'. I think pppoeconf should have done something differently > transparent to the user. FWIW, here's the /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider it > had generated. See this also in connection with the routing quirk > described in the original report (that had to be worked around with the > assigning of a static address). > > Eduard: please feel free to fork #265183 to pppoeconf bugs (on the As said to the previous bug reporters, it is simply not my job to load _kernel_ modules for some other package. It would just additional complexity while there are other places where it must be fixed. I agree that this bug looks very shameful for a fresh Debian release so it should be release critical. Especially when there is such a simple fix. PS: I won't clone 265183, there are already enough bug reports to the pppoe module problem. Regards, Eduard. -- OpenBSD fails miserably in this respect, and makes for an example of how NOT to work with the community on security issues. Their approach is, roughly, "we fixed this a while ago but didn't tell anyone, so you're vulnerable and we're not, ha-ha-ha". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
