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author | Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> | 2020-12-31 18:46:01 +0100 |
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committer | Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> | 2020-12-31 18:46:01 +0100 |
commit | b2c36e6c0e1655aea9b1b0a03a8160f42a26c884 (patch) | |
tree | c9d56f9380b3ce1ac278989b0fb87354d90bda6b /README.pppoe | |
parent | f1e3aa2dc7e7772d8491c6ff61e4e6d28af33d4b (diff) | |
download | ppp-b2c36e6c0e1655aea9b1b0a03a8160f42a26c884.tar.gz |
Rename rp-pppoe.so plugin to pppoe.so
Original out-of-tree rp-pppoe plugin for pppd software is still available
at website https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/rp-pppoe/ and receives new
releases. The last update is from the June 2020.
Currently it is ambiguous if user is using original out-of-tree rp-pppoe
plugin or in-tree pppd's rp-pppoe plugin. These two plugins are different,
come from different sources but share same name.
Some users want to use original rp-pppoe plugin and not pppd's in-tree
rp-pppoe plugin. Also some distribution want to package both plugins,
pppd's in-tree and original rp-pppoe.
So for this reason and also because all other PPP over <something> plugins
have just pppo prefix, rename in-tree rp-pppoe.so plugin to just pppoe.so.
This will allow to distinguish and make it clear what is the original
rp-pppoe plugin and what is pppd's in-tree pppoe plugin.
When installing pppd create a compatibility symlink from pppoe.so to
rp-pppoe.so so nothing would be broken. This compatibility symlink may be
removed by Linux distribution which do not want to have compatibility with
the old name as before and rather use rp-pppoe.so name for original
rp-pppoe software.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.pppoe b/README.pppoe index 9f4e5cd..2909e13 100644 --- a/README.pppoe +++ b/README.pppoe @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ to connect to their ISP who is providing PPPoE based services. 4. Add the following line to /etc/ppp/options: - plugin rp-pppoe.so + plugin pppoe.so The effect of this line is simply to make "eth0", "eth1", ....,"ethx" all valid device names for pppd (just like ttyS0, |