Hi Greg, On 10 Jul 2005 13:10:18 -0400, Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm not sure if development on pppd is still active. It seems there are dozens >of patches floating around and no upstream releases coming. Is it? Is this >still the list to reach the upstream maintainers?
It is a very quiet list, I emailed someone last year to see if they taking patches and no response. Only monitoring this group couple weeks, seems little traffic, holiday season? > >My question is whether there's a way to add options in a plugin. It seems the >options list is a static array in plugins.c and plugins are loaded using >dlsym. So unless I've missed some piece of infrastructure there isn't. > >This is really unfortunate. My ultimate goal is to make the timeouts and >retries in pppoe configurable just as they are for LCP. Currently they're set >to 5s with unbounded exponential backoff and a max of 3 retries. That makes >any temporary outage of even about 30s result in a complete failure. I wish I knew more of the pppoe <-> ADSL linkup as sometimes it takes a long time to establish a connection. > >I've hacked my personal copy to just retry every 5s forever but in an ideal >world there would be a pppoe-restart and pppoe-maxfail just like lcp-restart >and maxfail that could be set in the options or peers files. What scripts are you using? I'm using rp-pppoe to drive the connection, dunno what other ways there may be. > >But I don't see any reasonable way to do that without writing a lot of code. >Nor am I clear whether such a patch would eventually get released. There's not >much point in writing it just for myself -- I have my personal version hacked >up for my use already. If development is dead then there's not much point in >fixing this problem so generally. Scratch your itch, see if anyone else agrees with solution? Perhaps some like me, mostly have working connection, sometimes problems, it aint too broke to worry about? Another issue perhaps is that users may not be comfortable testing pppoe code on firewall box? Mine is running 2.4 kernel. Cheers, Grant. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
