Michael Bretterklieber

Thursday 28. August 2008 15:43

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MPD is a multi-link PPP daemon for FreeBSD based on netgraph(4). It is designed to be both fast and flexible. It handles configuration and negotiation in user land, while routing all data packets strictly in the kernel. It supports several of the numerous PPP sub-protocols and extensions, such as:

Multi-link PPP capability
PAP, CHAP, and MS-CHAP authentication
EAP authentication
PPP compression and encryption
Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol (PPTP)
PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

MPD also includes many additional features:

RADIUS authentication and accounting support
Dial-on-demand with idle timeout
Multiple active connections running simultaneously
Dynamic demand based link management (also known as ``rubber bandwidth'')
Powerful chat scripting language for asynchronous serial ports
Pre-tested chat scripts for automatic configuration of several common modems and ISDN terminal adapters
Clean device-type independent design
Comprehensive logging

MPD is hosted on sourceforge.net: MPD Project Page. There is also a MPD Mailinglist

You can install Mpd using the FreeBSD ports system. Click here for the FreeBSD port of MPD.

The latest stable Version is Mpd-3.17, an online manual can be found here.

The development Version of Mpd is Mpd-4, check the changelog for the new features of Mpd-4.

Mpd-4 is currently in beta state, you can downdload it from here.

NOTE: Mpd-4 needs an enhanced libradius, you can get the patches here.

There is also a list of "nice to have" features:

Responsible	Description	Status
	Callback client and server side.	not started
	i4b device layer.	not started
	Builtin NAT (ng_nat).	not started
	Remove the existing tpcmss-fix stuff by implementing a ng_tcpmss.	not started