Re: portslave
On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 16:36, I. Forbes wrote:
> The old one ran mgetty and a pppd patched for radius
> authentication via the radius client library. The patches have not
> been updated since pppd version 2.2 and the old machine still has
> a 2.0 series kernel.
>
> I am using portslave 2000-12-24 which I built on potato from a deb
> source archive a while back and kernel 2.2.19. It seems to work
> and we will go "live" in a few days.
The versions before 2001-06-20 all sucked in various ways. It was only in
the 2001-06-20 version that I really got the source under control.
> Do you know of a "potato" deb for the latest version, or if you have
> suggestions on how to get it to compile on potato, please let me
> know. I ran into problems with an unsupported "debhelper" version.
> Upgrading debhelper would require upgrading perl, by the time I
> have done that it wont look like a "potato" system any more.
Hopefully I'll have one for you tomorrow. I'll try and back-port the main
ppp package at the same time. Then you'll get the latest pppd along with the
Portslave that uses the regular pppd (saves memory).
> I am also not too sure if I agree with your comments on portslave
> doing everything than mgetty can do. I had a big battle to get
> portslave to work with my old modem to modem uucp clients.
Tell me exactly what you were trying to do and how it failed, if the current
version can't handle it easily then I'll add some new features.
Also the recent versions have many more features regarding logins other than
PPP/SLIP, whatever your problem was I'm sure it's a lot easier to solve now
than a year ago!
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