Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Barth
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050403 21:20]: > On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: > > I'd like to raise a discussion about PPTP (package name is pptp-linux). > > The package is used to connect to the internet, mostly with DSL connections. > I thought that was pppoe? Isn'

Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: > I rather use PPPoE, but that's not always an option due to ISPs' choice > (of hardware or software). I see. Well, since it IS being used to setup access, then I can't see how we could object to moving the required packages to support pptp to the first CD.

Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Lior Kaplan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I rather use PPPoE, but that's not always an option due to ISPs' choice (of hardware or software). Quoting http://www.poptop.org : "What is PPTP? PPTP stands for Point to Point Tunneling Protocol. It was developed by a consortium including Microsoft a

Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 03, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that was pppoe? Isn't pptp some half-assed encripted VPN protocol > from MS ? No, but it's related. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Apr 2005, Lior Kaplan wrote: > I'd like to raise a discussion about PPTP (package name is pptp-linux). > The package is used to connect to the internet, mostly with DSL connections. I thought that was pppoe? Isn't pptp some half-assed encripted VPN protocol from MS ? -- "One disk t

Re: bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 03, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to hear what people have to say for/against this bug report. I believe this is a reasonable request. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

bug #255367: Lake of PPTP in Debian first CD

2005-04-03 Thread Lior Kaplan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'd like to raise a discussion about PPTP (package name is pptp-linux). The package is used to connect to the internet, mostly with DSL connections. According to popcon.debian.org is at #3218 with 323 installations. Although that number isn't ver