Re: Bug#648361: uninstallable on kfreebsd-amd64
Hi Robert
Yes it could be possible to use it to create a ppp tunnel over ethernet
but it won't be encrypted which is the main purpose of the package.
// Ola
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:51:47PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> El 19 de març de 2012 21:30, Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org> ha escrit:
> > Hi
> >
> > After some research I have found out the following thing from a forum
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-June/090529.html
> >
> > "http://www.mreriksson.net/howtos/netbsd-pptp-client/
> > which discusses how to set up pptpclient on NetBSD and
> > there he mentioned about installing the PPPD-MPPE
> > package which I did't do in my FreeBSD box since I
> > failed to find the said pacakge in /usr/ports. I have
> > a slight idea that I really need to have this
> > installed because when I look at the properties ..."
> >
> > Based on this it looks like we have a dependency on a pppd-mppe
> > package that I guess is not available in Debian kFreeBSD port.
> > Or am I wrong here?
> >
> > Due to this I have decided to solve this bug by changing from
> > any to linux-any instead until someone can confirm that this
> > actually works.
>
> I can't see any reference to MPPE in the port, so in principle I don't
> think it's needed.
>
> --
> Robert Millan
>
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