Bug 62969 – ppp-2.4.1-r14.ebuild (Update)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Sverre 2004-09-05 22:23:51 UTC]

Find attached a new ebuild for ppp-2.4.1-r14 (which would make it ppp-2.4.1-r15) and required files (/usr/portage/net-dialup/ppp/files/ppp-dhcpc.tgz) that adds a USE flag "dhcp" and installs the ppp-dhcp plugin (see http://www.netservers.co.uk/gpl/) to ppp if the dhcp USE flag is present. The ppp-dhcp plugin acts as a dhcp relay to assign ppp connections ip addresses from a local or remote dhcp server.

Add these lines to the ppp options file (e.g. /etc/ppp/options.l2tp):
plugin dhcpc.so
dhcp-interface lo (replace with remote interface if not local)
dhcp-relay-address 192.168.0.1 (replace with ppp server's ip)

Note the limitation that while the plugin claims to use the ppp authentication details as the dhcp client-id, my experience has found that no client-id is sent at all)

[Comment 1 Sverre 2004-09-05 22:28:10 UTC]

Created attachment 39025 [details]
ppp-2.4.1-r14.ebuild (Update)

[Comment 2 Sverre 2004-09-05 22:29:41 UTC]

Created attachment 39027 [details]
ppp-dhcpc.tgz

Can also be downloaded from http://www.netservers.co.uk/gpl/

[Comment 3 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 03:23:52 UTC]

can you please make this patch for the latest ppp version

[Comment 4 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-09-27 04:51:34 UTC]

you got a lucky day, added to ppp-2.4.2-r5 :)