[ale] Was Routing, Then VPN, Now Working

[James P. Kinney III]

So, I trust you clearly documented your correct process with the intent
on sharing your hard-gained knowledge :)? 

As someone who has had to document a process that I created, it s a VERY
hard thing to do clearly. The familiarity of the developer with the work
tends to produce a poorly written HOW-TO. It is so easy to assume the
reader has knowledge that they don't really have. 

But you are so right in one aspect. The code marches a lot faster the
docs do. That is going to be an ongoing problem due to the colaberative
development process of linux. Design documentation is rarely done on
OpenSource projects such that a user manual can be written from it.

But publish what you did!! We need it. ;)

On Mon, 2001-12-03 at 10:06, Chris Fowler wrote:
> Good  News,
> 
> After working 3 more hours this morning,  I finally got the VPN stuff working. Here is my conslustions.
> 
> 
> 1.  The HOWTO documentation totally SUCKS!
> 2..  pty-redir.c had  a major flaw that caused issues with 2.4 kernels
> 3.  vpnd scripts SUCK!
> 
> The only way to remedy this problem is to create a new VPN howto and create one that does
> the following:
> 
> 1.  Works
> 2.  Explains in detail how and most importantly why to set things up
> 3. Discusses more on setting up SSH authentication
> 
> 
> Excuse my rant but I've always had one problem witht he HOWTOS.  Software progresses much
> faster than the documentation.   That is why I and other tend to stay away from them,  Maybe there are good HOWTOs that 
> are reguarly updated.  I have not found one yet.   If anyone else wants to get VPN working just ask.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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