L2TP library now available

[Archie Cobbs]

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

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Archie Cobbs      *        CTO, Awarix        *      http://www.awarix.com