On Tue 09 Apr 2002, Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists wrote: > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:57:00AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > > > > On a related note: > > > No one's responded to my question as to why pptp-linux was removed. > > > Its last RC bug was resolved already by the version in testing before it > > > was removed from testing. It's a pretty important package for those who > > > use ADSL, at least here in the Netherlands. > > > > I heard a rumour that it was removed because kernel-patch-mppe is buggy > > and pptp-linux claims in its description that it needs that. I have no > > idea whether that's the real reason.
Hmm, that must have been added at some point, it didn't have that in its description when I last needed it (read: built the sid version on a potato system for a client). Besides, it never depended on kernel-patch-mppe. > The problem (AFAI remember) is that pptp is able to communicate with M$ > pptp clients when some features are enabled. From /etc/ppp/pptpd-options: [....] > to have these options working and so to be able to accept M$ clients as > well (it might be that they can connect without it as well - I have not > checked) you need to apply the mppe kernel patch. > > Again - pptp works fine without that, you only have to disable these > options in the default config file, which has been done: > > pptpd (1.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low Ummm... I was talking about pptp-linux (the client). You seem to be talking about the server... Paul Slootman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
