PPP vs mpd (was: FreeBSD lacks PPPoE (pppoa3 solution))

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 05:46:02AM +0100, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> I wanted to bring this up a little later but since there is a somewhat related
> thread I thought I might as well bring this now. Our default PPPd is extremely
> outdated. The version in the distribution is a patched-up version of Paul's PPP
> 2.3.5 which is maintained now at http://dp.samba.org/ppp/. Version 2.3.5 is
> obsoleted and the latest version doesn't support *BSD.

The main problem involved in updating it has merging the FreeBSD
changes into the significantly different pppd code.  If the Debian
people have done this, then it could be updated - you didn't post a
link to the patches though.

Kris
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