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FS#17393 - [ppp] Add defaultmetric option to allow to set additional default route

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Björn Streicher (bstreicher) - Saturday, 05 December 2009, 11:02 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Sunday, 31 January 2010, 13:00 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
It would be nice if ppp could be patched to support the defaultmetric option as it does in Gentoo. This would allow to set an additional default route even if there is one already and is a nicer approach than the replacedefaultroute patch. See the following URLs for more information:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=270657
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=270657

The patch itself can be found e.g. in ftp://ftp.uni-frankfurt.de/pub/Mirrors2/gentoo.org/distfiles/ppp-2.4.4-gentoo-20091116.tar.gz

Supported in Gentoo since 2007 (http://www.gentooportage.info/portage/net-dialup/ppp.html):
07 Aug 2007; Alin Năstac +ppp-2.4.4-r10.ebuild:
Add defaultmetric option and allow setting the default route even if one
already exist (but has a different metric).

Additional info:
* package version(s): pppd 2.4.4
This task depends upon

Closed by  Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Sunday, 31 January 2010, 13:00 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  No feature-patches.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Monday, 07 December 2009, 08:26 GMT
pppd has been updated upstream to 2.4.5 and includes many many changes, maybe it includes this feature as well. I will update the Arch package soon, but I probably won't add a non-upstream feature patch.
Comment by Björn Streicher (bstreicher) - Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 14:24 GMT
Unfortunately, the feature is not included in v2.4.5 (see http://ppp.samba.org/ppp/README.html). So it would be nice if it could be included in the arch-package.

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