Re: ppp

[Daniel E Baumann <baumannd@msoe.edu>]

On Wednesday 10 January 2001 11:49, Petros Sidiropoulos wrote:
> I would like to hear good news about  support for ppp in GNU/hurd
> 'Life is miserable without sex and ppp' :)
>
> thanks in advance
> --Petros
> pesid@kav.forthnet.gr

The good news is I have ported user space PPP and it has been done for some 
time, but haven't been able to test it due to certain glibc features that are 
not there yet (some socket ioctl() calls), although Marcus tells me he will 
be done soon. I tried doign some things manually and copying over some libs 
that he gave me, but I got strange errors about "Protocol Family Not 
Supported" for AF_INET. Marcus has basically told me that I may be missing 
some things that he has on his system and it is best to wait for new debian 
packages. So whenever new debian packages come into the mix I can get it 
working. I am not about it jump into the fun that is glibc. I am leaving that 
to Marcus ;). I could have written it all using fsys_set_options, but that is 
not too portable, nor the recommended method.

So I just ask that all be patient, it will be there soon enough.

Dan
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