Note:   MPD is now hosted on SourceForge.net. You can now view CVS history, join the mpd-users mailing list, etc.

What is it?

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
• PPP compression and encryption
• Point-to-Point Tunnelling Protocol (PPTP)
• PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

Mpd also includes many additional features:

• RADIUS authentication 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

Latest Release

Getting it

Use the FreeBSD ports system to install MPD. Click here for the FreeBSD port of MPD.

Documentation

MPD installs in HTML and PostScript documentation into /usr/local/share/doc/mpd. Click HERE to veiw the manual.

There is also a basic man page.

MPD Patches

L2TP Support