Big PPTP server

[Brett Glass]

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.

>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