shaul wrote: > I am new to this stuff but it seems to me that somehow I have to tell pppd > that it has to use my Ethernet card and not a serial device. > That is, I need the pppd output to go into my Ethernet "network" (which is > only composed from my machine and the router), and not to a modem or other low > speed RS232 (or compatible) device.
Well, unfortunately pppd won't agree to write to the ethernet device. It will only write to a device which accepts tty ioctls. > If I got it correctly, what the VPN-HOWTO does is creating a pseudo, or > virtual network when it has an underlying real network. In fact, it is using > an existing network to create a virtual network above it. Yup, that's exactly right. > My problem, putting it in a simplifying manner, is that I have the wires > that connect the machine but do not have the real network above it. Hmm. Very strange that your router would want to encapsulate PPP in an ethernet frame. If you say so... > Or am I wrong ? Well, I'm kinda wondering. Encapsulating ppp into ethernet frames doesn't make much sense because ethernet already takes care of framing and already has a way of identifying the protocol of the frame. > As it seems to me now, I will either have to start learning the PPP source, or > get myself another router. Well, maybe you could just dig a little deeper to find out about your router. > BTW: How can root put raw data on the Ethernet device ? If there is no /dev > for it, then how can someone open this device ? Right, there is no /dev/ device for it but then again there aren't any for any of the network interfaces. There is a way to do it but I can't think of it off hand. > > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Peter Palfrader aka Weasel wrote: > > > > > > > > Feel free to reply with RTFM since I haven't done so yet. Your mail was > > > just a good oportunity to get into it. > > > > since you allow it :-)), VPN-HOWTO (mini) maybe is what you want. > > > > > > []s, > > Mario O.de Menezes "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but > > IPEN-CNEN/SP is the Lord's purpose that prevails" > > http://curiango.ipen.br/~mario Prov. 19.21 > > > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
