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Subject: Re: Mpd-4.2 released.
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Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Even if pppoe have some DoS weaknesses it also have some protection
>> mechanisms against it. It's a pity but ng_pppoe originally implements
>> protocol in a way which does not allow this protection to be effectively
>> used.
> 
> ng_pppoe can always be rewritten :-)

Surely, there are always many things can be rewritten. Even that which 
was just created. :)

It just was not our biggest problem I think. Absence of good L2TP 
implementation in FreeBSD before mpd-4.1/4.2, as example, was much worse.

-- 
Alexander Motin