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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: NAT and PPTP
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Brett Glass wrote:
> >I'd like to, but to be truthful I don't have much time to spare
> >these days...
> 
> Would it be possible for you to spend just a few hours on converting
> code from mpd's pptp_ctrl.c and pptp.c into the basis of the daemon? 
> The daemon would need to accept incoming "calls" only (which means the 
> code for outgoing calls could be scrubbed), dispatch GRE packets into 
> pipes to instances of "ppp -direct <label>" (which would be created as 
> needed), and send data received from those processes out over GRE,
> adding the correct call ID for that instance.

I don't have time to do any real work.. however, the PPTP control
layer can be used pretty much as is.. i.e., the files pptp_ctrl.[ch].
It has a fairly clean API that any PPP daemon could use, and all they
require is some kind of event support.

-Archie

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