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author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-09-06 18:42:27 +1000 |
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committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2008-09-06 22:21:22 +1000 |
commit | 636e804e954a5f26717c22b0bddf15e7e6c3facb (patch) | |
tree | caa87fdd39b3b7cd2a55c283c21e7fbcecb52a1f /README.MPPE | |
parent | 169be1f83215285b2bd3004f4c1b326b984ccb87 (diff) | |
download | ppp-636e804e954a5f26717c22b0bddf15e7e6c3facb.tar.gz |
Update READMEs etc. for the forthcoming ppp-2.4.5 release
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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diff --git a/README.MPPE b/README.MPPE index 94b8456..1d62efd 100644 --- a/README.MPPE +++ b/README.MPPE @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ PPP Support for MPPE (Microsoft Point to Point Encryption) Frank Cusack frank@google.com Mar 19, 2002 +Updated by Paul Mackerras, Sep 2008 + DISCUSSION @@ -59,17 +61,9 @@ RADIUS support for MPPE is from Ralf Hofmann, <ralf.hofmann@elvido.net>. BUILDING THE PPPD The userland component of PPPD has no additional requirements above -those for MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2. The kernel, however, requires SHA-1 -and ARCFOUR. Public domain implementations of these are provided. +those for MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2. -Until such time as MPPE support ships with kernels, you can use -the Linux 2.2 or 2.4 implementation that comes with PPPD. Run the -ppp/linux/mppe/mppeinstall.sh script, giving it the location to your -kernel source. Then add the CONFIG_PPP_MPPE option to your config and -rebuild the kernel. The ppp_mppe.o module is added, and the ppp.o module -(2.2) or ppp_generic.o (2.4) is modified (unfortunately). You'll need -the new ppp.o/ppp_generic.o since it does the right thing for the 4 -extra bytes problem discussed above. +MPPE support is now included in the mainline Linux kernel releases. CONFIGURATION @@ -79,7 +73,6 @@ than 2.4.15, you will need to add alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe -to /etc/modules.conf. (A patch for earlier versions of modutils is included -with the kernel patches.) +to /etc/modules.conf. |