Re: SSH as a VPN tunnel?

[Tatu Ylonen]

> 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.

If I remember correctly, Charlie Scott's book "Virtual Private Networks",
2nd edition (O'Reilly, 1998) has a section on how to use SSH Secure Shell
to build a VPN.

    Tatu