Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-26 Thread Rob Zietlow
On Thursday 26 May 2005 05:10 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: > what's on the other end? My apologies, I only responded to Nikos. His suggestion of upgrading to the newer pppd23 worked. And I've now had the joyous task of rolling it out onto a couple machines. I did figure Julian would know :-)

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-26 Thread Julian Elischer
Tim Pushor wrote: Rob, I had a cursory look through your scripts, and seems like you handle most of the logic. I don't know anything about pppd for Linux (is it based on the same code?). I let pppd manage retries & setting routes. It will also drop and dry to reconnect if either side can't

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-26 Thread Julian Elischer
what's on the other end? Rob Zietlow wrote: On Monday 23 May 2005 08:18 am, Tim Pushor wrote: hmm, Thanks for the response, Tim. I wouldn't personally recommend vpn over ssh for anyone either, but i'm kind of stuck with it. I'm the sole bsd user at my company, and the ppp over ssh was i

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-24 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 03:57, Rob Zietlow wrote: >Good day List, > >I have a question about pppd. We use ppp over ssh for a VPN solution into >work. The script works on linux, but not in freebsd because the >implementation of pppd that comes with freebsd does not recognize the pty >command. W

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-23 Thread Tim Pushor
Rob, I had a cursory look through your scripts, and seems like you handle most of the logic. I don't know anything about pppd for Linux (is it based on the same code?). I let pppd manage retries & setting routes. It will also drop and dry to reconnect if either side can't talk to the other (via

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-23 Thread Rob Zietlow
On Monday 23 May 2005 08:18 am, Tim Pushor wrote: hmm, Thanks for the response, Tim. I wouldn't personally recommend vpn over ssh for anyone either, but i'm kind of stuck with it. I'm the sole bsd user at my company, and the ppp over ssh was implemented years before I came and has worked fin

Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-23 Thread Tim Pushor
You don't need the pty. I don't recommend vpn over ssh, unless its absolutely necessary. OpenVPN is much better ... I've set it up (as it was absolutely necessary :-), and here is a config from the 'client'. default: set timeout 0 set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp set d

pppd pty equivilent in FBSD

2005-05-23 Thread Rob Zietlow
Good day List, I have a question about pppd. We use ppp over ssh for a VPN solution into work. The script works on linux, but not in freebsd because the implementation of pppd that comes with freebsd does not recognize the pty command. When I attempt to connect up I get the following. test