Re: [lwip-users] LCP Termination Request steps

[Sylvain Rochet]

Hi Simon,


On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 09:37:53PM +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> It's sad that this project seems to "die" though, given the fact
> that (at least in germany), PPPoE is still use pretty often in DSL
> routers, and many of them use linux.

Same here (in France), because operators allow others to use their *DSL 
networks as a transport service, PPP is used along with Radius realms to 
create a tunnel from the DSL subscriber to the tiny-operator L2TP LNS.


> > We can add the necessary compile-time conditions, this is pretty 
> > easy to do, I am planning to do so with the previous compile-time 
> > options used.
> 
> Of course we "can", but this means a) effort and

"effort" part is done.


> b) giving up the initial hope of having zero changes against the 
> original sources to let bugfixing be a simple matter of copying the 
> fixed original sources. But then again, it seems like we can forget 
> that :-/

Well, considering all the required changes just to remove the 
POSIX/unix-dependencies, file system I/O, and so on, this is an 
impossible goal to achieve.

And I am not talking about features I added which pppd does not support, 
like having multiple PPP sessions running concurrently in the same 
process, which require no global variables everywhere and passing a 
context to all functions... while pppd use statically here and here the 
element number 0 of the PPP interface table. I kid you not.


> In any case, your work is much appreciated!!

Thanks ;-)


Sylvain

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