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Cc: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Big PPTP server
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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 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 plumbed). Also, I understand that at least some of the code 
is from a very old implementation of PPP that was written in Japan 
many years ago.

Have you thought about how such modifications might be made?

--Brett Glass