Re: vpn tunnel via ssh fails because of ssh authentication problem

From: Tom Van Overbeke (tom.van.overbeke@pandora.be)
Date: 12/21/02


From: "Tom Van Overbeke" <tom.van.overbeke@pandora.be>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 12:13:50 GMT

On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 06:06:34 +0000, Richard E. Silverman wrote:

>
> This has nothing to do with the VPN issue. You're using a protocol-1-only
> key with protocol 2. Also:
>
> 1) read http://www.snailbook.com/faq/no-passphrase.auto.html
>
> 2) This VPN technique is notoriously bad because of issues of poorly
> interacting flow control mechanisms in layered TCP connections (i.e.,
> using TCP transport for IP datagram service which may in turn have
> other TCP connections running on top of it, does not work well).

Thanks Richard, i'll take a look at the link you provided.

BTW, what VPN technique would be better suited, considering that on the
vpn server, i have only 1 port available (port 8080) to setup a vpn link.
all other ports are blocked either on the server side firewall, or on the
client side.

thanks,

Tom.



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