upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2

I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to find them and move them into a separate directory). One thing that confused me for several

port of MPPE (microsoft VPN encryption) to FreeBSD

I needed MPPE to tunnel into work and found: http://www.moretonbay.com/vpn/releases/ppp-2.3.10-openssl-norc4-mppe.patch.gz which applies to ppp-2.3.10 and adds MS CHAP v1 and v2 and MPPE to pppd and the related kernel code. Imagine my surprise when I found that only the CHAP parts were portable

a note about configure, off_t and struct stat

I'd like to preserve this for posterity, so I'm hoping the list will accept this (I'm not subscribed) so that others may benefit from the archives. I hope no one else ever has to spend the 10 hours on this I did! IF for some reason configure decides that your system does not define `off_t' it wil

upgrade issue from 2.2.x -> 3.2

I just did that upgrade (been with freebsd since 1.1!) and everything seems pretty smooth. I did a 2.2->3.1 upgrade on another machine so I'm probably glossing over some aout issues (mainly that you have to find them and move them into a separate directory). One thing that confused me for severa