Big PPTP server

[Julian Elischer]

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
>
>
>
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