[CALL FOR TESTING] PPTP, L2TP and PPPoE rework

[franco]

Hi everyone,

We've finally gotten around to give the old VPN section a thorough refresh, especially with regard to removing the long deprecated MPD4 daemon in favour of the latest MPD5. Some things have changed, like the listen IP now requires you to select a configured IP (either real or via the Virtual IP functionality).

The iteration is not 100% complete as we still have a bit of kernel rework ahead of us, but we're confident this will be finished in the upcoming weeks. The plan is to move the legacy VPNs away from the base installations in 16.7 so that they can be optionally installed as a plugin if needed. These ideas go back as far as 15.1, when the good m0n0wall folks sparked such ideas and we're finally in a project state where such plugin capability can be easily achieved. :)

The first development version that has these changes is 16.7.a_651 which ships with 16.1.8 and can be installed through the usual method described here:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=917.0


Thank you for testing and inevitable/invaluable feedback,

Franco

[franco]

Bump! This will be shipped with 16.1.x when 16.7 goes release candidate. We really need the testing. :)