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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: Multiple connections to MPD-netgraph as PPTP server
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 "from Julian Elischer at Mar 4, 2002 04:23:37 pm"
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:15:53 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Ryan Morris <ryan@egate.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Julian Elischer writes:
> > I solved my own problem... it turns out that my naming conventions caused
> > an issue when MPD labelled the PPP node.  It truncated the bundle names at
> > 8 characters, and since mine were 8 characters plus a number following the
> > truncated names for all the links were identical, and it refused to load
> > them.
> 
> I guess this needs noting in the ppp docs
> Soem limits may be inherrited from Netgraph too.

This problem has bitten me in several different situations.
We should increase NG_TYPELEN, NG_HOOKLEN, and NG_NODELEN 
from 15 to, say 63.

-Archie

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Archie Cobbs     *     Packet Design     *     http://www.packetdesign.com

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