Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-22 Thread Ermal Luçi
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:42 PM 3/22/2008, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >mpd can attach to arbitrary netgraph things... > > Yes, it can; however, there's no way in its configuration language > to say, "set up a PPTP connection, but let this ne

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-22 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:42 PM 3/22/2008, Julian Elischer wrote: >mpd can attach to arbitrary netgraph things... Yes, it can; however, there's no way in its configuration language to say, "set up a PPTP connection, but let this netgraph node do the demultiplexing." (Or, better, let the kernel do the demultiplexing

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-22 Thread Julian Elischer
ext Brett Glass wrote: At 12:40 PM 3/21/2008, Julian Elischer wrote: if it takes you more than 1 day to write a netgraph function to do it you are taking too many coffee breaks. It might be possible to do it, but (a) it would break the interface to mpd and (b) if it it would not help other

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-22 Thread Brett Glass
At 04:50 PM 3/21/2008, Ermal Luçi wrote: >ng_gif_demux does the same it shouldn't be to hard to come with >something similar for pptp. >If you find the time and do it please share. If I do it, I certainly will. I'd need to work with the developers of mpd to make sure that the two would work toget

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-21 Thread Ermal Luçi
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everyone: > > I have recently been building FreeBSD VPN servers which can accept > 50 to 100 PPTP connections. PPTP is, essentially, PPP over GRE > (with a TCP control connection), so we have large numbers of > packets pa

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Glass
At 12:40 PM 3/21/2008, Julian Elischer wrote: >if it takes you more than 1 day to write a netgraph function to do it you are >taking too many coffee breaks. It might be possible to do it, but (a) it would break the interface to mpd and (b) if it it would not help other apps (e.g. pptpd). It wo

Re: GRE Mux

2008-03-21 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: Everyone: I have recently been building FreeBSD VPN servers which can accept 50 to 100 PPTP connections. PPTP is, essentially, PPP over GRE (with a TCP control connection), so we have large numbers of packets passing in and out using GRE. Unfortunately, GRE on FreeBSD doesn

GRE Mux

2008-03-21 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: I have recently been building FreeBSD VPN servers which can accept 50 to 100 PPTP connections. PPTP is, essentially, PPP over GRE (with a TCP control connection), so we have large numbers of packets passing in and out using GRE. Unfortunately, GRE on FreeBSD doesn't currently have a