MPPC for Netgraph: Isn't it time?

Eugene Grosbein eugen at grosbein.net
Wed Jun 1 08:22:48 UTC 2016


On 01.06.2016 00:55, Brett Glass wrote:
> Everyone:
> 
> Just built a kernel today, and realized that for years I have had 
> to integrate MPPC compression/encryption (see man page ng_mppc(4)) 
> for PPP/L2TP/PPTP manually, even though the HiFn patent has long 
> since expired and there's no reason not to include the files in the 
> FreeBSD code base. Could a committer with access to that part of 
> the tree please import the files mppc.h, mppcc.c, and mppcd.c into 
> /sys/net so there's no need to find and fetch them every time?

This manual page information is stale.
FreeBSD has stock MPPC support for long time and I use it extensively since
FreeBSD 8 with mpd5 and netgraph.




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