On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Brian Somers wrote:
> > mpd does not know how to be a pppoe server.
> > HOWEVER the pppoed program is designed to turn the normal ppp
> > into a server. It is possible that archie might be able to
> > make mpd use pppoed (or embed it) but I'm pretty sure he hasn't done
> > it yet.
>
> pppoed can be told to run mpd. As long as mpd can handle treating
> descriptor 0 as it's link, it'll work.
>
> > MPD Is a multilink server, yes.
>
> When a second link is established from a client, it'll invoke a new
> mpd instance. Is mpd smart enough to detect this and pass the link
> from one invocation to the other ?
>
> This was one of the trickiest parts of making ppp(8) a multilink
> server.
I remember Archie and I discussing this with you way back when
you were trying to work out how to do it, and I know that Archie
halped with suggestions, but as far as I know there is no code i mpd to do
that as it wasn't needed for what mpd was designed to do.
of course I believe that ppp can now do everything that the writer asks
for..
:-)
>
> > On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, ome ome wrote:
> >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I would like to test a multi-link over 2 different
> > > types of device with MPD 3.7 (PPPoE and PPP over a
> > > serial link) between two stations on freeBSD 3.5.
> > >
> > > MPD works fine as client, so I would like to know if
> > > MPD 3.7 could be a server PPPoE? Moreover, could MPD
> > > be
> > > a multi-link server?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
>
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