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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:12:41 +0200
From:      Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
To:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Cc:        net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NAT and PPTP
Message-ID:  <20030729111241.70a5f030.c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
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Hello,

Any hopes for anything like a pptpd (like the pppoed) 
any time soon ? , discussion stopped in the thread
so maybe you guys discussed this further privately
and decided something ? 

pptpd is a much needed feature nowdays.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003 23:00:45 -0600
Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> wrote:

> At 08:50 PM 7/24/2003, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>   
> >I don't have time to do any real work.. however, the PPTP control
> >layer can be used pretty much as is.. i.e., the files pptp_ctrl.[ch].
> >It has a fairly clean API that any PPP daemon could use, and all they
> >require is some kind of event support.
> 
> We wouldn't be doing it quite that way; we'd be using it just to
> steer the call through PPP (which wouldn't know that it was PPTP;
> it would just think the call was PPP with MPPE on the CCP layer).
> So, the PPP implementation wouldn't need to know about PPTP call
> control.
> 
> --Brett

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