Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:19:28 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Eric Masson <emss@free.fr> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSTP support? Message-ID: <200708091419.IAA26238@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <86ps1xhr4i.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> References: <200708082205.QAA14169@lariat.net> <86ps1xhr4i.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com>
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Eric: Maybe. However, I just got a message from a Microsoft employee named Samir Jain that indicates SSTP may not be a viable standard -- or, in fact, a standard at all. He says that Microsoft is implementing it only on Vista, not XP... even though most hardware out there which runs XP cannot support the memory or CPU requirements of Vista. And he says that Microsoft doesn't intend to put out an RFC for SSTP; instead, it will be "licensed to third parties." Of course, due to the prior art you mention below, it can't be patented, and the recent consent decree requires Microsoft to make it available to third parties. In any event, this silly and self-destructive behavior by Microsoft may make it moot.... Hope they'll come to their senses. --Brett Glass At 05:41 AM 8/9/2007, Eric Masson wrote: >Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> writes: > >Hi, > > > It seems as if it would be easy to cobble together an SSTP client and > > server using code already available on FreeBSD. (It'd require a daemon > > for userland PPP and probably an SSL Netgraph node -- which, > > surprisingly, doesn't seem to exist already -- for mpd.) Is anyone > > already working on such a project? > >There's something similar in the ports collection : >/usr/ports/net/ssltunnel-server >/usr/ports/net/ssltunnel-client > >It's been written by A. Thivillon from HSC (http://www.hsc.fr), actual >setup uses pppd(8) and thus may lead to instabilities, but It can use >ppp(8). > >Maybe It could be used as a starting point. > >-- > GB> Quel est le titre du générique de jour de foot écrit par d halliday > Vous commencez a nous gonfler a demander qui a ecrit la ziq de JDF ! Je > repond une derniere fois : David Halliday ET ARRETEZ DE NOUS BASSINER > -+- OM in <http://le-gnu.net>; : footu foouteu se foorvoie -+-
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