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Cc: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>,
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Subject: Re: Big PPTP server
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Brett Glass wrote:
 >> It was not originally intended as a large scale server. It could be
 >> adapted to that fairly easily but no one has done so yet.
 >
 > I might be motivated to try; however, I would need to understand more 
about its architecture (and about Netgraph, whose mysteries I haven't 
plumbed). Also, I understand that at least some of the code is from a 
very old implementation of PPP that was written in Japan many years ago.

That's true.. it was based on the original "ppp" program.

 > Have you thought about how such modifications might be made?

Not really.. it's been about 10 years since I was last really
hacking on mpd :-)

-Archie