From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 9 14:19:44 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD1A16A418 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from lariat.net (lariat.net [66.119.58.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EF8613C46C for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:19:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brett@lariat.net) Received: from anne-o1dpaayth1.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.net@lariat.net [66.119.58.2]) by lariat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA26238; Thu, 9 Aug 2007 08:19:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200708091419.IAA26238@lariat.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 08:19:28 -0600 To: Eric Masson From: Brett Glass In-Reply-To: <86ps1xhr4i.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> References: <200708082205.QAA14169@lariat.net> <86ps1xhr4i.fsf@srvbsdnanssv.interne.kisoft-services.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSTP support? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:19:44 -0000 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 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 : footu foouteu se foorvoie -+-