Please let me note - for the members of our list that don't share the same insights - that it is not true that Gentoo doesn't support VPN in general. We still have excellent products like OpenVPN. It is just a specific, proprietary VPN protocol implementation that is discussed here.
Am Samstag, den 22.01.2005, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Holly Bostick: > Daniel Drake wrote: > > Peter wrote: > >> Well. I can't see the future :) But in the current situation, > >> I have to look for workarounds like, mentioned by you, installation from > >> package cd and then patching kernel. And I do not see any steps > >> forward. So I told never. Of course may be one day... > > > > It just seems to me that the original post was a stab at gentoo kernel > > development rather than any hope of starting any constructive discussion... > > > >> But may be there is a possibility to create ebuild, which will download > >> the patch from http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ , and then patch the > >> kernel? > >> I think this ebuild can be GPL'ed, but then user can decide does he want > >> this bad kernel headers and other code be changed or not. > > > > Because the patch isn't GPL it means we can't include it in our tree > > without changing the licensing of our kernel (I don't think this would > > go down well). It's licensing is ok on its own, but what you suggest in > > an ebuild isn't practical, and would create lots of issues due to > > variation between kernel versions. If the author could recode it as a > > kernel module then that would be a start. > > Also, this does not address points 2 and 3 in my last post, which still > > prevent us from including this. > > > > Daniel > > > > -- > Granted. > > But here's my question: is this issue not occurring solely because the > user is trying to connect to said VPN through software? > > My ISP uses VPN as well, and at the moment I connect via the LAN using > software routing on a Windows machine (the presence of Windows bypasses > the OP's issue). However, we are waiting for a router, which supports > VPN in hardware and is compatible with both UNIX and Windows, and is > configured via a web interface. > > So if the OP had such a router (or, alternatively, if and when I get my > bf to switch to Linux, making this a one-OS household), such a kernel > patch would no longer be necessary, would it (because the router > understands VPN perfectly well, so as long as I give it the correct > configuration details, it would work fine)? > > Or am I missing something (I'm no network guru ;-) )? > > Holly > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Mit freundlichen Gr��en Heinz Sporn SPORN it-freelancing Mobile: ++43 (0)699 / 127 827 07 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: Steyrer Str. 20 A-4540 Bad Hall Austria / Europespox -- [email protected] mailing list
