On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 4:16 PM, YASUOKA Masahiko <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a maintainer of npppd.
>
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:51:52 +0200
> wessels <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I did a test install of OpenBSD 5.0 and noticed that npppd is present
>> in the source tree but isn't compiled nor installed.
>> I rebuild everything using yesterdays sources from CVS. A manual build
>> and installation as described in HOWTO_PIPEX_NPPPD.txt does build and
>> install npppd.
>> Is npppd not included by design? If so, why?
>
> There are 2 things to do for npppd.
>
> 1. rewrite configuration parser.
> 2. write man pages.
>
> I hope to do these tasks before 5.1.
>
>> Second I noticed that only the man page for npppdctl is present. The
>> npppd and npppd.conf man pages are not present yet.Hmm, is this the
>> anwer to my first question??
>
> Yes, that is one of reasons.
>
> --yasuoka
>
For a moment I thought it was being included in 5.0 already. Is there
anything I should be aware of, npppd in it's current state? I'm really
looking forward to test this. A lot of devices need l2tp for vpn's and
OpenBSD lacked this functionality.
Thanks for integrating this project into OpenBSD.
