On Sat, 6 Nov 1999 04:33:20 +0100 (CET)
Mates Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does anybody have any experience with this ?
>
>Scheme is such:
>
> 1. on first host ( host1 ) I have an ethertap tap0
> ifconfig-ured to 10.0.5.1/24
>
> 2. that means the traffic will appear as data on
> /dev/tap0
>
> 3. so we can do something similar to
> cat /dev/tap0 > traffic
> to get the traffic off
This doesn't look like you are using tcp/ip.
> 4. why not to transmit the traffic over ssh !
>
> 5. on the second computer ( host2 )
> ifconfig tap0 10.0.5.2/24 -broadcast
If you run sshd on host1 can you connect to that host from
host2? On host2 does
ssh 10.0.5.1
connect correctly (like an rlogin)?
If it does then:
> 7. wow ! VPN !
should work according to the HOWTO.
>I think this might be quite simplier way of establishing the VPN
>than that one described in Linux VPN mini HOWTO ( with ppp )
I don't think "cat ..." will be useful. What are you cat'ng off
the interface? You'd need a connection to the remote host so you
could start pushing or pulling data to the local host? It might
be simpler but, I hardly think as useful? Or have I completely
missed your intent?
Paul
