On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 06:35, Simon Matter wrote:
> Chris Tooley schrieb:
> >
> > I don't know if anyone is interested, but I found myself in a situation
> > where I had to set up a PPTP server on a linux box (PoPToP) to
> > authenticate Windows clients. This meant that I had get mppe into the
> > kernel ppp that comes built into the RedHat contributed kernel. I ended
> > up getting everything set up right and have RPMs built with it. The
> > only difference between the 2.4.9-31 kernels that are in the
> > contributed-by-redhat directory and is the ppp difference. This doesn't
> > break using ppp normally it just adds the ability to use ppp-mppe. If
> > anyone would like a copy of these kernels they can be made available.
> >
> > Chris Tooley
>
> I might be interested one day but when this day comes, it'll be far too
> late for the 2.4.9-31 kernel. IIRC the problem with mppe is that for
> some reason RedHat can not include it in their kernel. It is a licence
> thing or an export problem, isn't it?
mppe uses openssl so there may have been some export restrictions but I
thought most of those were lifted. Not sure though. The mppe module
(when modprobed) does get a warning about tainting the kernel. Don't
know how to go about making that social problem go away.
> I have contributed the 2.4.9-31 RPMs and the goal was to have exactly
> the same kernel like original RedHat 2.4.9-31 but with only XFS and kdb
> included. Could you send me the .spec and patches anyway?
>
I didn't do a whole lot of work to get it going. I took the
kernel-2.4.9-31mppe SRPM from mirrors.binarix.com/ppp-mppe, installed
it, took the kernel-2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2 SRPM and installed it, (noting
that it installes on top of the mppe kernel) and added like five lines
to the .spec to include the differences between kernel-2.4.9-31mppe.spec
and kernel-2.4.9-31SGI_XFS_1.0.2.spec (which was not much).
The patch that is used is:
http://mirror.binarix.com/ppp-mppe/linux-2.4.16-openssl-0.9.6b-mppe.patch.gz
and the .spec file is:
http://www.thetooleys.org/pptp/kernel-2.4.9-31-RH-xfs.spec
Let me know if you have concerns over issues that you see with it. The
kernel name doesn't reflect the mppe patch at all, as changing the
kernel name broke a bunch of my kernel modules. This is something that
I would expect most people will have problems with and it seems a very
minor change in the long run, but the file names probably ought to
reflect a difference.
Chris Tooley
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