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Date:      Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:17:12 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Ovi <ovi@unixservers.us>, mpd-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:   Re: Mpd-4.2 released.
Message-ID:  <46829B98.2050202@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <46829431.8020500@elischer.org>
References:  <468135BF.8010407@freebsd.org>	<20070626214936.GC79335@zone3000.net>	<4681A062.9040009@freebsd.org> <468245F8.1090709@unixservers.us> <46825347.1030206@freebsd.org> <46829431.8020500@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
>> Even if pppoe have some DoS weaknesses it also have some protection
>> mechanisms against it. It's a pity but ng_pppoe originally implements
>> protocol in a way which does not allow this protection to be effectively
>> used.
> 
> ng_pppoe can always be rewritten :-)

Surely, there are always many things can be rewritten. Even that which 
was just created. :)

It just was not our biggest problem I think. Absence of good L2TP 
implementation in FreeBSD before mpd-4.1/4.2, as example, was much worse.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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