From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 7 10:40:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755EC37B446 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:40:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.206.8]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020307184014.WWED1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:40:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA43132; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:24:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 10:24:09 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Brian Somers Cc: ome ome , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPD Server ? In-Reply-To: <200203071335.g27DZAH6073810@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Brian Somers wrote: > > 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. I remember Archie and I discussing this with you way back when you were trying to work out how to do it, and I know that Archie halped with suggestions, but as far as I know there is no code i mpd to do that as it wasn't needed for what mpd was designed to do. of course I believe that ppp can now do everything that the writer asks for.. :-) > > > 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