Re: ppp vpn through ssh

From: Filip Lyncker (lyncker_at_gmx.de)
Date: 12/21/03


Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 16:35:34 +0100

yes youre right, but if it would be that horrible in practice why did they
write this mini howto. id like to check that out...
but it seems not that easy to find someone who knows how to do this with
windows...:)

"all mail refused" <elvis@notatla.org.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:slrnbu9ell.sm5.elvis@notatla.org.uk...
> 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.
>
> --
> Elvis Notargiacomo
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