hi,
yeah - you definately can add options in a plugin.
define a global static option_t array in your code:
e.g.
static option_t options[] = {{"optionname", o_string,
&variable_name, "Description"},{"option2name",
o_string, &variable2_name, "Description2"}, ... ,
{NULL}};
(o_string is the option type - there are some other
ones - i forget which pppd source file to look in for
the list and i don't have a copy of the source on hand
atm. Also, there has to be a {NULL} entry to denote
the end of the list)
then include an add_options(options); command in your
plugin_init().
I think all you need include is pppd.h.
As for development, as far as i can tell, there is
still development going on. I've been suscribed to
this list for a few years and it is very low traffic.
I'm guessing development is done somewhat as an
exclusive club kinda thing.
hope this helps.
cheers,
David
--- 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?
>
> 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
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