Re: 2.4.2 on AMD64 Linux: assumes 4-byte long - FIXED!

[Guy Rouillier <guy-rouillier@speakeasy.net>]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 14:43:46 +1000
James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com> wrote:

> Guy,
> 
> Yes, Mandrake's kernel source includes MPPE support, and the
> kernel.org sources do not.  Other distributions also add MPPE support
> in this way; Debian and SUSE included.  Red Hat do not.
> 
> I know Debian get their kernel-patch-mppe package from PPP CVS.  I
> suspect Mandrake and SUSE did as well.  You should check that the
> sources match what is in PPP CVS.  To get PPP CVS onto your system,
> 
> 	cd /usr/src  # (or some other reasonable directory)
> 	cvs -d :pserver:cvs@pserver.samba.org:/cvsroot co ppp/linux/mppe
> 
> If you've made changes to drivers/net/sha1.{c,h} and Mandrake got
> these from Frank Cusack's work that is in PPP CVS (directory
> linux/mppe), then you could post them here or to Frank.  

Thanks.  I checked out ppp, and the Mandrake 2.6.3-9 kernel did indeed
get sha1.c/h from linux/mppe.  I will post two new messages here, one
for the fix to ppp/pppd and the other for the kernel fix in linux/mppe. 
 I appreciate your help.

> 
> Matt Domsch, Jan Dubiec, and some others have also been working on the
> MPPE patch; they have posted to the PPTP mailing lists.
> 
> If you logged a bug report with Mandrake, one would hope that they
> would elevate this report back to Frank.  ;-)  There is a risk that
> they will adjust their patch instead.
> 
> -- 
> James Cameron                         http://quozl.netrek.org/
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> PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer
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Guy Rouillier