Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > We have been using an openssh/pppd tunnel as a vpn for quite some time > > with great sucess. My partner just got a highspeed connection at his > > house and I was walking him through setting up the connection to our > > office when we got to the step of trying the actual connection after > > verifying all the ssh keys and seeing the ppp garbage sent back from the > > server. > > > > The scripts we use to do this on RH6.2 all use a pty-redir that is > > apparently a part of the linuxconf package. > > FWIW, I work with the author of the SSH+VPN HOWTO, and we plan to rewrite > that HOWTO sometime soon. pty-redir hasn't been required since sometime > very shortly after it was written. > > pppd has the ability to allocate a pty and run a subcommand for I/O rather > than opening a serial device. It's run like this: > pppd .... script "ssh blah ..." > > The next howto will be based on the scripts that are available at: > http://www.dragonsdawn.net/~gordon/vpn/ > Save yourself some trouble and use them. :)
Thanks Gordon, I did not get that from the pppd man page but then I did not really know what to look for. I will certainly give the scripts a try. After all the scripts I use now were yours too :) Bret _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
