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Cc: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>,
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Subject: Re: Big PPTP server
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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 configurations? Was mpd originally intended 
> to be used as a client only? I'm struggling here because I can't find 
> a PPP/PPTP implementation that's completely BSD licensed and really 
> designed to be a large scale server.
>
> --Brett Glass

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.