X-Git-Url: http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.MPPE;h=1d62efd16cc13f6244a1b138f52ac8f06b3f5c8a;hp=7091d0344bd1c11e6c86e13028ee9185b737cdb8;hb=d16a3985eade5280b8e171f5dd0670a91cba0d39;hpb=506314b474820d2f073cd79d5eb578eb96abeff1 diff --git a/README.MPPE b/README.MPPE index 7091d03..1d62efd 100644 --- a/README.MPPE +++ b/README.MPPE @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ PPP Support for MPPE (Microsoft Point to Point Encryption) Frank Cusack frank@google.com Mar 19, 2002 +Updated by Paul Mackerras, Sep 2008 + DISCUSSION @@ -58,14 +60,10 @@ RADIUS support for MPPE is from Ralf Hofmann, . BUILDING THE PPPD -The userland component of PPPD has no additional requirements above those -for MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2. The kernel, however, requires SHA-1 and ARCFOUR. -Public domain implementations of these are provided. Until such time as -MPPE support ships with kernels, you can use the Linux-2.2 implementation -that comes with PPPD. Run the linux/mppe/mppeinstall.sh script, then -rebuild your kernel. The ppp_mppe.o module is added, and the ppp.o module -is modified (unfortunately). You'll need the new ppp.o since it does the -right thing for the 4 extra bytes problem discussed above. +The userland component of PPPD has no additional requirements above +those for MS-CHAP and MS-CHAPv2. + +MPPE support is now included in the mainline Linux kernel releases. CONFIGURATION @@ -75,7 +73,6 @@ than 2.4.15, you will need to add alias ppp-compress-18 ppp_mppe -to /etc/modules.conf. (A patch for earlier versions of modutils is included -with the kernel patches.) +to /etc/modules.conf.