Re: patches past 2.4.5

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>]

Charlie Brady <charlieb-linux-ppp@budge.apana.org.au> wrote:
    > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Michael Richardson wrote:

    >> RADIUS plugin changes:
    > ...
    >> 8) if we find an invalid option in radius config file, it is fatal

    > This one is stupid. I recently sent you a patch to revert it. pppd
    > should not die just because a new option which the radius plugin
    > doesn't care about has been added to the radiusclient. Is the radius
    > plugin reading the config file to validate it for correctness, or to
    > read a few items which it cares about?

Like I said, it might well be that some of the things I saw were not in fact
"features", but regressions.  This one also seemed daft to me, and I haven't
yet found reasons for a bunch of other things.  I.e. does this fix a real
customer problem? 

I think this is an example of this.

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