Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:37, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > You only need pptp-linux if you use an Ethernet attached modem instead of
> > the USB attached modem (which is E50 cheaper).
>
> Yes, but often the line comes in many meters away from the system, and
> the simplest thing is then to run some UTP to the ADSL modem.

In my apartment the line comes in many meters from my computer and I just ran 
many meters of telephone extension cable to my modem which is next to my 
computer.

> > Also the Ethernet attached devices that they are selling are
> > reprogrammable and have PPTP capabilities.  Getting a Linux machine going
> > without PPTP is doable.
>
> No.
> In the beginning the ethernet attached devices were easily hacked (the
> reprogramming you mention was in fact a hack, and would void any
> warranty).  Nowadays the capability to do this has been removed
> entirely, as a colleague recently discovered when he tried this (he has
> a Mac with OS-X, and is having trouble getting the link up if he doesn't
> use the GUI interface to do that).

I'm surprised to hear it's a hack.  I am working for a major Dutch company 
that is planning a major roll-out of broadband connected machines, and we are 
planning to reconfigure all such modems as part of the standard installation.

Maybe we are talking about different things here?

> All of this, however, still doesn't answer the question why it was
> removed, and why it can't go back in.

True.  I want to see it in too!

> So your long legalistic sig is also void? :-)

Correct, my sig does not apply when I send email to myself.  ;)

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