From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 7 8:19:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B70637B42F for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 08:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g27GJE544973; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 16:19:14 GMT (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g27DZAH6073810; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:35:10 GMT (envelope-from brian@freebsd-services.com) Message-Id: <200203071335.g27DZAH6073810@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Julian Elischer Cc: ome ome , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: MPD Server ? In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer of "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:23:20 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:35:10 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > mpd does not know how to be a pppoe server. > HOWEVER the pppoed program is designed to turn the normal ppp > into a server. It is possible that archie might be able to > make mpd use pppoed (or embed it) but I'm pretty sure he hasn't done > it yet. pppoed can be told to run mpd. As long as mpd can handle treating descriptor 0 as it's link, it'll work. > MPD Is a multilink server, yes. When a second link is established from a client, it'll invoke a new mpd instance. Is mpd smart enough to detect this and pass the link from one invocation to the other ? This was one of the trickiest parts of making ppp(8) a multilink server. > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, ome ome wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I would like to test a multi-link over 2 different > > types of device with MPD 3.7 (PPPoE and PPP over a > > serial link) between two stations on freeBSD 3.5. > > > > MPD works fine as client, so I would like to know if > > MPD 3.7 could be a server PPPoE? Moreover, could MPD > > be > > a multi-link server? > > > > Thanks in advance. -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message