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Re: problems with pppd



On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Cedar Cox wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
> >
> > I was looking into CIPE in the last week, and the current plans are to
> > start using CIPE asap, unfortunatly - it's not even close to being as
> > trivial as pppd over ssh, and except for this anoying problem, the vpn
> > works great using the script I've written.
>
> Trivial?  IMHO, I remember pppd+ssh sounding more complicated than cipe..
> Besides that, I didn't like the idea of that little rouge utility running
> as root on my system (the tty tool, I forget the name).  As for cipe,

if you're refering to the so called pty-redir util, then have no fear - I
do not use it at all. apparently pppd since 2.3.something can do it well
by itself, and if you can't trust pppd, then who can you trust ? ;-)

> compile the kernel module (IMO, simple), write a five line config file and
> run the daemon.  Set up the routes and you're done.

hmm.. would you be so kind as to send/post your configurtion files
(sensitive information removed, of course :-) ?

> hmm.. I'm curious to see what you did.  I'm sure mine is something of a
<snip>
sent in private mail

Oded




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