Hi John,
Ugh. You *can* do this, but here's reasons why not:
http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
Another reason, it's a real pain to tunnel PPP through Secure Shell.
-Anne
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 02:55:43PM -0800, John H. Blake wrote:
> Is there a way to use SSH as a VPN tunnel? What I'd like to be able to
> do is establish a SSH connection to a server on the other side of a
> firewall (I already have this part working), then create a "route" on my
> local system that would send certain traffic (based on netmask) over the
> SSH connection to the remote system.
>
> I'm assuming I'd need some kind of routing software running on both
> (local and remote) systems, working together with the TCP forwarding
> capability of SSH.
>
> Any and all help, including pointers to FAQs, would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> John Blake
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