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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:22:25 -0700
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Big PPTP server
Message-ID:  <44DF51C1.8000306@dellroad.org>
In-Reply-To: <44DCB4D8.4020901@elischer.org>
References:  <7.0.1.0.2.20060810201735.067258b0@lariat.net> <44DBF2BB.5080202@micom.mng.net> <7.0.1.0.2.20060810212047.073f0078@lariat.net> <44DBFC05.6080804@elischer.org> <7.0.1.0.2.20060810220804.08de8568@lariat.net> <44DCB4D8.4020901@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Julian, as I recall you were one of the original employees of Whistle 
>> Communications, correct? Perhaps you can explain this: Why does mpd 
>> require all of those link configurations? Was mpd originally intended 
>> to be used as a client only? I'm struggling here because I can't find 
>> a PPP/PPTP implementation that's completely BSD licensed and really 
>> designed to be a large scale server.
>>
>> --Brett Glass
> 
> That's more a question for archie as he wrote it, bit it was written to  
> be a server on  small appliance.
> 
> Some people have been working on imporving mpd but I don't know much 
> about it.

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.

-Archie




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