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>>>>> "Todd" == Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
    Todd> On 25 Jan 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

    Todd> : > > is probably what the user was asking.  And to answer that,
    Todd> NetBSD does not : > > support PPTP yet.  : > : > No, not yet. Doe
    Todd> other *BSD or Linux?  : : PPTP is an abortion. I don't know that we
    Todd> *should* support it.

    Todd> Abortion or not, `it's interoperability.'  sigh.

    Todd> Perhaps this is a job for the tun interface and a userland
    Todd> daemon?....

  As I understand PPTP, one ought to be able to open a UDP socket (or an
IPPROTO_ESP socket and implement the UDP in your daemon) and a pty. Connect
pppd on the slave side of the PTY, and just move packets back and forth.
  PPTP essentially creates tunnel for the PPP layer packets on top of
IP.

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