Re: RFD: kernel PPTP support

2005-07-09 Thread Alan Jenkins
> As an alternative, it would be possible to create the PPP network device > in a similar way to a normal GRE tunnel, using the "ip tunnel" command, > and for pppd to access this device using a packet socket - which seems > like a more elegant solution to me. The current ip tunnel framework requir

RFD: kernel PPTP support

2005-07-08 Thread Alan Jenkins
I'm a student with time on my hands who's recently become interested in PPTP. I would like to try to add some support for the PPTP protocol in the kernel. PPTP (Point to Point Tunneling Protocol) was created by a "vendor consortium" including Microsoft, and is described in RFC 2637. It can be us