Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:39:49 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big PPTP server Message-ID: <44DBFC05.6080804@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060810212047.073f0078@lariat.net> References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060810201735.067258b0@lariat.net> <44DBF2BB.5080202@micom.mng.net> <7.0.1.0.2.20060810212047.073f0078@lariat.net>
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Brett Glass wrote: > At 09:00 PM 8/10/2006, Ganbold wrote: > >> It will be much easier if you can write some script to generate mpd >> config files. I'm generating config files such way for PPPoE. > > > Is there a way to avoid having to generate them at all? It seems to me > that it would be very easy for mpd to create netgraph nodes on the fly > as it needed them. mpd does all the netgraph manipulation itself. > >> Did you try Radius? > > > This company hasn't been using a RADIUS server. They have an Active > Directory server (yuck!), but I don't know if it would be useful for > this purpose. > > By the way, a related problem I'm encountering is that mpd seems to > want some options set before authentication when they need to be set > afterward based on the user's identity. For example, while the user's > IP can be set when the user is identified and authenticated (via > mpd.secret), the IP at the host end of the PPP link can't. So, you run > into situations where the IP assigned to the incoming PPP/PPTP user > isn't on the same subnet as the one assigned to the host, which seems > to cause routing problems. > > --Brett Glass > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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