On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 05:29:16AM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi Robert; > ... > Hmm.. my intention was just to let you know how things are done in FreeBSD, > I'm > not really into suggesting which ppp you might want to use :).
Any suggestion is appreciated, of course. > > [1] see the archived thread: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2003/debian-hurd-200306/msg00114.html > > > I think I saw this thread on Daemonnews too. Do you have any link? > > I recently posted a patch for Debian's PPP to work on GNU/FreeBSD [2]. Have > > you tried it? It's untested yet and i'm waiting for someone to tell me how > > it works. > > > I haven't sorry, I use the non-GNU FreeBSD. Ah, ok. Note that FreeBSD is per-se the non-GNU system. Our GNU/FreeBSD is not "a FreeBSD", we just happen to use FreeBSD's kernel. btw, if you regurlarly use FreeBSD, note that you can try GNU/FreeBSD easily with a chroot jail - no need to install over your existing system. > Is Debian's ppp derived from the older pppd in FreeBSD? > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/pppd/ No, I think it's actualy the other way around. Debian uses a PPP implementation that is widely used on GNU/Linux distributions and also runs on *BSD and some propietary Unices. For what i'm told, the *BSD forked that PPP at some point and made their own versions. The fork is not that much separated, as you can see i used code from both FreeBSD's and NetBSD's PPPs for my port. > It should just work, but it was left basicly unmaintained several years ago... > the "modern" tendency is to use netgraph: > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200003/netgraph.html (the article is a little > outdated) I'll look at that, thanks! -- Robert Millan
