OpenSSH PPP tunneling issue

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Robert!

I doubt that will work either.  pppd needs more of a "tty" than
just stdin, stdout and stderr.  It also needs access to the
ioctl()s for setting baud rates, bit rates, etc....

RGDS
GARY
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Robert Steinfeldt wrote:

> Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:31:01 -0700
> From: Robert Steinfeldt <robert.steinfeldt at steeleye.com>
> To: Gary E. Miller <gem at rellim.com>
> Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org
> Subject: Re: OpenSSH PPP tunneling issue
> 
> "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
>