-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 May 2004 19:06, Nathan Robertson wrote: > I know this will leave a bad taste in peoples mouths, but from a > practicality point of view the Microsoft VPN (MPPE and friends, iirc) > is implemented by a kernel patch in ppp CVS (providing the ppp_mppe > module). I've got that patch in my kernel at the moment and it works > well. The great thing is that it works with everything - Linux, Mac > OS X and Windows, and works over a masquerade for the client. I think > these two points are important (particularly useful for RHEL > customers, I would have thought) - range of client compatibility, and > the client working over a masquerade. > > The patch has been around for a fair while (I've had it patched in > for about 6 months now, god knows how long it's been around before > that). I haven't bothered looking into why Linus hasn't merged it, > since crypto is now in the kernel. Maybe patent issues in the US? I do believe the biggest thing is that the module taints your kernel. Non GPL compliant I do believe. - -- Jesse Keating RHCE (http://geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (http://www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (http://geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsCQi4v2HLvE71NURAvt5AKCV95mNps8qJbMdiF3jWilv//81uACgoQag uDKtgNWas3kAW4a5N7VkbbE= =kXZF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
