mppe support

Richard B. Pyne rpyne at kinfolk.org
Thu Jul 1 17:56:28 GMT 2004


Thank you, it does.

It is used for Microsoft VPN

RFC 3078 - Microsoft Point-To-Point Encryption (MPPE) Protocol

RFC 3079 - Deriving Keys for use with Microsoft Point-to-Point 
Encryption (MPPE)

RFC 2118 - Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression (MPPC) Protocol

MPPE/MPPC kernel module for Linux http://www.polbox.com/h/hs001/

It requires both kernel and pppd patches.

 I'll work up a kernel module and a pppd module for it.

--Richard

On 1 Jul 2004 at 18:59, Auke Kok wrote:

> Richard B. Pyne wrote:
> > Do any of the lunar kernel (2.4) modules include mppe support? I 
> > am trying to add pptp tunneling to a machine running lunar and 
> > don't want to re-invent the wheel (create my own custom kernel 
> > module) if I don't have to.
> 
> I've never heard of 'mppe'. Does this require a specially patched 
> kernel? If so then I doubt that that patch is merged in one of our 
> kernels. If this is a module that is available in the vanilla kernel you 
> should be able to use the normal kernel module.
> 
> I hope this answers your question.



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