hi guys, there is a new version of the pptp program, version 1.0.3, available at http://www.scooter.cx/alpha/pptp.html. this version incorporates several scripts to ease setting up a pptp connection, and, more importantly, several changes and updates to the "core" pptp program. i have ported the pptp patch from 1.0.2 to 1.0.3, with the intent of submitting it to the developers, in order for it to be folded into the master distribution. before i do that, i'd like for it to get some testing with different modems. so, if you have a working adsl connection and you're wiling to help me test this patch, here's what you need to do. 1. get the patch from http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/pptp-linux-1.0.3-pptp-mulix-1.0.3.diff 2. get pptp-linux-1.0.3 from http://www.linuxalpha.compaq.com/pptpclient/files/pptp-linux-1.0.3-1.tar.gz 3. extract the pptp-linux-1.0.3-1.tar.gz archive into a new dirctory. it will extract into a directory called pptp-linux-1.0.3-1. 4. inside it you will find a directory called pptp-linux-1.0.3/. change its name to pptp-linux-1.0.3.orig or somesuch. 5. make a new directory, pptp-linux-1.0.3 and copy pptp-linux-1.0.3.orig/* to it. 6. from the pptp-linux-1.0.3-1 directory, run this command to patch the source: 'patch -p0 < pptp-linux-1.0.3-pptp-mulix-1.0.3.diff' 7. mv pptp-linux-1.0.3 pptp-mulix-1.0.3 8. cd pptp-linux-1.0.3.orig && make 9. cd pptp-mulix-1.0.3 && make you should now have, inside the pptp-linux-1.0.3-1 directory two directories, pptp-linux-1.0.3.orig (the original pptp-1.0.3 sources) and pptp-mulix-1.0.3 (the patched version). inside each of them will be a pptp binary. please try to connect using _both_ binaries. what _should_ happen is that the one in pptp-mulix will succeed, and the other one wont. whatever happens, please email me: a) your modem version, and b) which (if any) of the pptp versions connected. thanks in advance! -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
