Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 60798
PPTP Client
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:40:45 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: Using PPTP for VPN networking to access corporate intranets seems to be becoming popular. I got this working here but it's rather intrusive as it requires modifications to both the kernel (new mppe module and modified ppp_generic module) and the pppd package. Yes, I know PPTP sucks by design but it turned into a must-have for me ... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.(Having to fill the reproduce field for a feature request is silly) 2. 3. Additional info:
It seems that most if not all pptp clients use non-gpl compatible code in the kernel bits ;(
*** Bug 68853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The comments in the MPPE kernel patches available at http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pptpclient/ppp-2.4.2_cvs_20021120.tar.gz seem to indicate that the sha1 and arcfour code they have is public domain. According to http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html public domain licensing is compatible with the GPL.
May I "reactivate" this request for the current severn beta? pptp is widely used, despite its deficiencies, the GPL issue seems to be solved, and the current RH9 version on pptpclient.sourceforge.net is solid and well done. In a further step redhat-configuration/control-network should include adtivation/deactivation of pptp (just as cipe) Peter Boy
If the license issues are resolved, the pptp folks need to get their stuff pushed upstream. If its not good enough for upstream, it's not good enough for FC / RHEL. Aparently, there have been requests for them to do this in the past, which have fallen on deaf ears.