Ed McMan grabbed a keyboard and typed... > The VPN howto shows how to use ssh to make a true VPN. It involves > ppp, not ssh's port forwarding. Unfortunately, the howto is very > dated, and it relies on a software package that is very difficult to > find.
You do not want to do that. Tunnelling PPP over SSH gives you serious performance hits you have can reduced with other VPN implementations. Don't get me wrong--SSH is good for a lot of things--just a VPN is not one of them. I use SSH every day, and even maintain the SSH FAQ (okay, so it's out-of-date, but Steve and I are working on that), but I digress.. Here is a link on why PPP over SSH is a bad idea: http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html -Anne -- .-"".__."``". Anne Carasik, System Administrator .-.--. _...' (/) (/) ``' gator at cacr dot caltech dot edu (O/ O) \-' ` -="""=. ', Center for Advanced Computing Research ~`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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