Re: ppp vpn through ssh

From: all mail refused (elvis_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 12/20/03 

Date: 20 Dec 2003 21:09:13 GMT

In article <bs2cnf$8uo6m$1@ID-11401.news.uni-berlin.de>, Filip Lyncker wrote:

>thanks but i allready have my experiences with pptp , it is pretty insecure
>but the main problem is, that it is not that easy to route throgh routers
>and firewalls. its never a problem to route a port like 22 ( and if not i
>change it to 80 ) , so its much more interessting to use the ppp through ssh
>possibility !

If you're doing TCP over that ppp then you've got TCP over TCP which
I am assured sucks horribly because they will apply timeouts in ways
that don't make sense. 

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