“Chuck Talk: Hi David, thanks for agreeing to
an interview. It is appreciated. For my audience’s sake, could you
tell me a little bit about yourself and Roaring Penguin
Software?“David Skoll: I started Roaring Penguin
Software in 1999 because I’d always wanted to be self-employed. One
of my first contracts was to hook a customer’s Linux firewall up to
his DSL provider. ‘Sure, no problem,’ I said. Then I discovered
PPPoE, and no good Linux PPPoE implementations. So I wrote
rp-pppoe, which is now the de-facto standard PPPoE implementation
in most Linux distros…”