[pptp-server] pptp w radius authentication on a solaris system

[Charlie Brady]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001 EBennett at powerlan.com.au wrote:

> Just about to embark on a project which it doesn't appear a lot of people
> have done before after looking over some list traffic, is there anyone out
> there who's configured poptop on solaris? Is this a difficult project or
> pretty much the same as under linux? How is streams encryption handled, I
> know it's a kernel component in linux but I don't see how it would be done
> in solaris.

See ppp-2.4.1/solaric/ppp_comp.c:

/*
 * ppp_comp.c - STREAMS module for kernel-level compression and CCP
support.
 *
...

MPPE is a PPP compression protocol - even though it does compression, and
even though it makes the payload larger, not smaller - remember, this is a
Microsoft hack.

Charlie Brady                         charlieb at e-smith.com
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