FC3 wishlist (pptp)

[Nathan Robertson]

On 19/07/2004, at 6:51 PM, Genady wrote:

> Will you include a pptp/l2tp dialer in the Internet Configuration 
> wizard this time?
> I posted a request at bugzilla the other day: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128094...
> Waiting for response...

There was a thread in May about VPN solutions for Fedora Core:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00715.html

In particular, the following cover PPTP (which uses the Microsoft MPPE 
standard):
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00770.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00783.html
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00779.html

The basics are that it taints your kernel, but I can't find anything 
that looks GPL incompatible. I haven't followed up why it isn't in the 
mainstream kernel. It's been in CVS for a fair while, but looking at 
the ppp-2.4.2 tarball, it looks like it was pulled from the 
distribution or something. If I goto CLUG on Thursday night and Paul 
Mackerras is there, I'll ask him what the story is.

Regards,
Nathan.