Mpd 5.9 User Manual

Archie Cobbs, Michael Bretterklieber, Alexander Motin

`<mpd-users@lists.sourceforge.net>`

2020-09-06

This manual covers the use of mpd version 5.9, a multi-link PPP daemon for FreeBSD based on netgraph(4). You must be running FreeBSD version 5.x or higher to use it, and it is advised to have the latest system version to get access to all mpd features.

1. Introduction

1.2. Organization of this manual

1.3. Change history

2. Installation

2.1. Getting mpd

2.2. Installing mpd

2.3. Building mpd

3. Running Mpd

3.1. Invoking mpd

3.2. Configuration file format

3.3. Mpd command line interface

4. Configuring Mpd

4.1. General mpd commands

4.2. Mpd Layers

4.3. Link layer

4.4. Bundle layer

4.5. Encryption (ECP) layer

4.6. Compression (CCP) layer

4.7. IPCP layer

4.8. IPv6CP layer

4.9. Interface layer

4.10. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)

4.11. Dynamic Authorization

4.12. Traffic accounting

4.13. IP address pools

4.14. Network Address Translation (NAT)

4.15. Control console

4.16. Web server

5. Device Types

5.1. Modem type commands

5.2. Netgraph device type commands

5.3. TCP device type commands

5.4. UDP device type commands

5.5. PPTP device type commands

5.6. L2TP device type commands

5.7. PPPoE device type commands

6. Chat Scripting

6.1. Script file format and execution

6.3. Sets

6.5. Script commands

6.7. The included mpd.script

7. Troubleshooting

7.1. Troubleshooting

8. Internals

8.1. ToDo

8.2. Authentication

8.3. Hints for developers

9. References

9.1. References