Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:16 AM 8/25/2006, Archie Cobbs wrote: >The ng_pptpgre node handles the "data packet" level of PPTP, but most >of the complexity in PPTP is in the higher level protocol for setup >and teardown. You'd have to get that in there somehow. I suppose that the call control facility could be impleme

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brett Glass wrote: Just wanted to ask about the feasibility of the following idea. Would it be possible to use the Netgraph PPTP node, in combination with Brian Somers' userland PPP implementation, to make a PPTP server? It would work similarly to FreeBSD's "pppoed", which uses the Netgraph PPP

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-25 Thread Brett Glass
Archie, Julian: Just wanted to ask about the feasibility of the following idea. Would it be possible to use the Netgraph PPTP node, in combination with Brian Somers' userland PPP implementation, to make a PPTP server? It would work similarly to FreeBSD's "pppoed", which uses the Netgraph PPPo

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-15 Thread Archie Cobbs
Brett Glass wrote: >> It was not originally intended as a large scale server. It could be >> adapted to that fairly easily but no one has done so yet. > > I might be motivated to try; however, I would need to understand more about its architecture (and about Netgraph, whose mysteries I haven't p

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-14 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:32:22 -0600 Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This company hasn't been using a RADIUS server. They have an Active > Directory server (yuck!), but I don't know if it would be useful > for this purpose. As much as it's a MS solution, why reinvent the wheel / kill you

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-13 Thread Brett Glass
At 10:22 AM 8/13/2006, Archie Cobbs wrote: That's more a question for archie as he wrote it, bit it was written to be a server on small appliance. Some people have been working on imporving mpd but I don't know much about it. It was not originally intended as a large scale server. It could b

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-13 Thread Archie Cobbs
Julian Elischer wrote: Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configurations? Was mpd originally intended to be used as a client only? I'm struggling here because I can't

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-11 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:39 PM 8/10/2006, Julian Elischer wrote: mpd does all the netgraph manipulation itself. Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configuration

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Uwe Laverenz
Hi Brett, On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:43:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > flail around experimenting? If I can't use mpd and PoPToP isn't > working, what other options are there for a good PPTP server? It's not PPTP, but maybe OpenVPN is an otion for you: /usr/ports/security/openvpn ht

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:39 PM 8/10/2006, Julian Elischer wrote: mpd does all the netgraph manipulation itself. Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd require all of those link configurations? Was mpd originally

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Julian Elischer
Brett Glass wrote: At 09:00 PM 8/10/2006, Ganbold wrote: It will be much easier if you can write some script to generate mpd config files. I'm generating config files such way for PPPoE. Is there a way to avoid having to generate them at all? It seems to me that it would be very easy for m

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Brett Glass
At 09:00 PM 8/10/2006, Ganbold wrote: It will be much easier if you can write some script to generate mpd config files. I'm generating config files such way for PPPoE. Is there a way to avoid having to generate them at all? It seems to me that it would be very easy for mpd to create netgraph

Re: Big PPTP server

2006-08-10 Thread Ganbold
Brett Glass wrote: I've been asked to work on a PPTP server for a large company which has up to 100 users tunneling in at once. They currently have a FreeBSD machine set up to use FreeBSD's userland PPP together with the PoPToP pptp daemon. (They have a hacked version of PoPToP which allows di