http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,1383.0.html
I am baffled by the above post on the forum. Like
it or not pfS devs ... PPTP is here to stay and
has it place in networking. I am not a big
supporter of it personally and I am fully aware of
its inherent risks and vulnerabilities. But I
find it very unprofessional to state (paraphrase
from SUllrich), "I think it should go away, I
don't like it and therefore I will not make it
work right on pfSense". I realize that you are
hard at work on other things and most likely have
a full plate with hackathon, but it seem you might
find a more constructive method of addressing this
ISSUE. I can't name ONE "enterprise" FW that does
not support multiple PPTP sessions outbound (if so
desired), and since one of the goals of pfS that I
have read many times on the board and lists is to
make an enterprise class FW ... maybe someone
could start addressing the issue with some
constructive dialogue or maybe a few pointers on
where someone from outside the core dev team might
start in getting this to work w/ OpenBSD's PF.
This is one of the only downfalls of this project
... the hollier-than-thogh attitude from the core
dev team. This is a GREAT product of many hours
of arduous labor from ALL, dev team and project
contributors alike ... but open-source also means
open to suggestions and other lines of thinking.
With that said .. where would someone start on
getting multiple PPTP sessions working???
Step 1: Find someone that cares
Step 2: Convince them to do your bidding
Step 3: Convince Theo that PPTP support needs to be in the kernel (actually...that should be step one cause you'll never find someone to do it otherwise)
Step 4: Since 3 will never actually happen, find someone that can figure out how to do this in userland
Step 5: Wait for it to be ported to FreeBSD
Step 6: Wait for us to bring it into a release
Talk to you in never years.
--Bill
