From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Cameron Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 22:16:38 +0000 Subject: Re: RFC: PPP MPPE merge into kernel 2.6 Message-Id: <20040202221638.GA5522@hp.com> List-Id: References: <20040130040026.GI2306@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040130040026.GI2306@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:43:29PM +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > Should the MPPC support (by Jan Dubiec) be included as well? > http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/ I don't think so, due to the software patent issue. While my personal belief differs, while working for HP I am constrained to follow patents. > It also contains some additions to the MPPE support. Yes, 56-bit keys. I haven't found any demand for that. The options are also slightly different, though that would be easy to ignore. Jan's work though looks robust and thorough. Having the work hosted like that, with current patches for all current kernels, is more than Frank is doing. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/