[pptp-server] pppd, CHAP and RADIUS (was: Licensing and MSCHAP binaries for pppd)

Charlie Brady charlieb at e-smith.com
Sun Oct 7 20:20:01 CDT 2001


On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:

> > Smart ideas on how to approach MPPE most gratefully accepted. Hmmm...
>
> Oh, and most of MPPE should sit in the kernel.  So all in all, the pppd code
> doesn't have to be too ugly. :)

Yeah, right.

MPPE and its options needs to be negotiated using CCP, then the encryption
engine in the mppe module needs to be initialised. Then you need to handle
the difference between stateless and stateful encryption - which I
maintain the widely available patches do not do correctly.

Charlie Brady                         charlieb at e-smith.com
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