Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 13:35:10 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: ome ome <olivmet@yahoo.com>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: MPD Server ? Message-ID: <200203071335.g27DZAH6073810@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> of "Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:23:20 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202201021340.63302-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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> 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.
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