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?
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'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. 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. -- greg - 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
