Dan McDonald writes:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 05:20:51PM -0700, Ben Rockwood wrote:
> > Can someone please give me a head check?
>
> AFAIK, there's no L2TP/PPTP server for {,Open}Solaris. We'll gladly take
> one, but there aren't enough Team IPsec cycles for us to deliver one, alas.
Speaking for the remaining PPP folks, +1.
When I designed the sppptun driver, I actually had L2F, L2TP, and PPTP
in mind as well as PPPoE. The scope of the project got whittled down,
and what I ended up delivering was just the PPPoE portion. (A shame,
in some respects, as it's an atrocious protocol.)
Things have changed quite a bit since those days. I suspect that the
plumbing into TCP/IP for those protocols would be _quite_ different if
attempted now, but the general idea of an HDLC-like driver for PPP
that performs the tunneling actions is still sound.
If someone has the time to work on something like this, that'd
certainly get my vote.
(It'd be unfortunate to get one of those awful pseudo-terminal-based
hacks using AHDLC as a "solution," though it'd likely appear to be
expedient. The problem is that they perform horribly because they run
the data path through user space, and getting them to work reliably at
all is _easily_ as challenging as doing it right in the first place.)
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