From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 20:00:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F75716A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:00:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxsf21.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf21.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.221]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F41C843D1F for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from archie@dellroad.org) Received: from mxip10.cluster1.charter.net (mxip10a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.140])i6CK2WL9012068 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:02:33 -0400 Received: from cable-24-196-25-11.mtv.al.charter.com (HELO InterJet.dellroad.org) (24.196.25.11) by mxip10.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 12 Jul 2004 16:00:04 -0400 X-Ironport-AV: i="3.81R,161,1083556800"; d="scan'208"; a="113108523:sNHT813513654" Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org ([10.104.180.64]) by InterJet.dellroad.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA36423 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:56:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: from arch20m.dellroad.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i6CJuX0a002133 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:56:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from archie@arch20m.dellroad.org) Received: (from archie@localhost) by arch20m.dellroad.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i6CJuXaH002132 for freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:56:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200407121956.i6CJuXaH002132@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200406032137.i53LbYPa012978@arch20m.dellroad.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:56:33 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: L2TP library now available X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:00:06 -0000 Archie Cobbs wrote: > For those interested in an L2TP implementation... good news & bad news :-) > > The good news is that the "libpdel" library (port devel/libpdel) > now includes a PPP library with L2TP server support. MANY THANKS > to Vernier Networks, Inc. for agreeing to open source this code. > This is a netgraph based PPP library. > > The bad news is that this code is a library, not a server, so you > can't use it as an L2TP server yet. However, it is written to do > everything except for the "policy decisions" (i.e., all of the hard > work) and there is a simple proof-of-concept test L2TP server program > for one remote client that can serve as sample code. > > The next step (if folks are interested) is to use this code as the > basis for writing a working L2TP server. Hopefully others will be > able to contribute since I'm too busy to do it all myself. Update on this.. there is now a simple L2TP server implementation based on this code checked in as port "net/sl2tps". Any feedback appreciated. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com