I know you have offers for this already, but a friend just pointed out to me that pppoeconf is up for adoption, and I was interested in working on it anyway. I'm not a DD, so I would need a sponsor for this package - maybe you, maybe someone else. I am quite good at shell scripting, and have done some Debian packaging (mostly for private purposes). The reason I was already thinking about pppoeconf is that I wanted to add support for setting up kernel-mode pppoe. The 'pppoe' kernel module is available on Linux 2.4/2.6 and recent versions of pppd, and this mode does not require the userspace 'pppoe' package at all. As I understand it, it should be a bit more efficient than user-mode pppoe. (I use kernel-mode pppoe, and it works fine, but I haven't done benchmarks on CPU load or anything.) I just downloaded pptp-linux, and it looks like support for PPTP would not be difficult to add either. The difficulty with *that* is the need for an external kernel module; 'kernel-patch-mppe' is around, and apparently an alternative module exists somewhere which does not require kernel patching. I'm unsure whether or not to try and support PPPoA as well; I just don't know anything about that. I'd like to maintain pppoeconf, but if you would rather keep it, I can just start to produce patches for these features, and you can apply them on their merits. Peter
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