Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 14:44:38 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sten_Daniel_S=F8rsdal?= <sten.daniel.sorsdal@wan.no> To: "Archie Cobbs" <archie@dellroad.org>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org> Cc: net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: NAT and PPTP Message-ID: <0AF1BBDF1218F14E9B4CCE414744E70F1F3E0C@exchange.wanglobal.net>
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> > Julian Elischer wrote: > > > > > >However I do suggest that you discuss the > possibility of enhancing mpd > > > > > >with archie to allow allocation of addresses from a pool. > > > > > > > > > > I seem to recall (I could be mistaken here) that > Archie has been working > > > > > with a company that does Wi-Fi access points with > PPTP. If these use > > > > > mpd, they must have a workaround for the limitation. > So, the code may > > > > > already exist. > > > > > > > > IIRC, Archive said that this was a complete (both "from scratch" > > > > and proprietary) implementation of an MPD-like system. > > > > > > That's correct.. the code is not released. I'll ask about it again > > > (but don't keep your hopes up). > > > > if that fails, how much would it take to allow mpd to use a pool of > > addresses? > > It wouldn't be "too hard" but would require some major surgery > to mpd... but it could use some :-) > > -Archie > A potential feature that could be really cool would be adding dhcpclient/relaying code so that the IP addresses could be queried from a dhcp server. I've seen several commercial implementations of this - but me != good coder :o) - Stenhelp
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