OpenSSH PPP tunneling issue

[Robert Steinfeldt]

"Gary E. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Yo Robert!
> 
> OpenSSH and SSH tunnel IP.  PPP is a layer underneath IP used
> for point to point connections.  OpenSSH does not tunnel PPP or
> any other protocol under IP.
> 
> If you need PPP then you need to find a way to tunnel it inside
> IP and then tunnel that IP in SSH.
> 

Ack. Perhaps I should have been more precise with my terminology. :)

What I'm doing is using OpenSSH as a conduit, such that on both the
client and server machines, pppd is run through the tty that ssh can
create with the -t option. The result is that on the client side, pppd
sends PPP data through the SSH connection to the other side, where the
server is ALSO running pppd. They then exchange binary PPP information
through the ssh tty.

Server		OpenSSH		Client
------		-------		------
pppd->		->tty<-		<-pppd


Robert