From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jan 31 23:15:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from vinyl.sentex.ca (vinyl.sentex.ca [209.112.4.14]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 259AA3D25 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 23:15:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite-atm.sentex.ca [209.112.4.1]) by vinyl.sentex.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19282; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:10:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (ospf-mdt.sentex.net [205.211.164.81]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA24372; Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:10:20 -0500 (EST) From: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) To: archie@whistle.com (Archie Cobbs) Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netgraph documentation? Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 02:09:06 GMT Message-ID: <38963f7f.337386886@mail.sentex.net> References: <14485.55786.748236.209806@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent .99e/32.227 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 31 Jan 2000 14:40:20 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.net you wrote: >David Gilbert writes: >> Archie> Right.. PPTP and L2TP are different things. Mpd only supports >> Archie> PPTP at this point. >> >> Well... this is what I wanted to know --- what is the distance >> between the two. How much effort needs be mustered to close that gap? > >They are somewhat similar, since L2TP evovled from PPTP (and L2F). >However, I believe they are sufficiently different that it would >take a fair amount of work to write a L2TP server from a PPTP server. >I haven't read the L2TP spec in detail yet though. > >The way mpd works right now, it treats PPTP as just another physical >layer type, like modem or netgraph node. So perhaps L2TP could be >implemented in the same fashion.. ? > >I think ppp(8) has a similar device abstraction layer too. There is a daemon with source code available at http://www.marko.net/l2tp/ There is a bit of work to be done on it according to the readme. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message