From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 7 09:14:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22421 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 09:14:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22276 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 09:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12320; Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:52:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199806071552.QAA12320@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Matt Behrens cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security & ppp tunneling In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jun 1998 22:12:43 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 16:52:54 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I recently discovered ppp's ability to use a network socket as a device. > Pretty cool, quick, and dirty. :) > > I'm wondering, is there any way (easy or otherwise) to encrypt said > traffic? I may resort to using skip but I'd like easier options if > possible. :) Thanks! With the latest ppp (http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html) you can specify a program with a ``!'' prefix as the device. This program can do whatever it takes to get another ppp talking to stdin.... > Matt Behrens | http://www.zigg.com/ > Network Operations, The Iserv Company | Proudly running FreeBSD; sworn > MIS, Michigan Kenworth, Inc. | enemy of Linux, a free hack OS > Chanop Script Coordinator, WWFIN | and Windows, a non-free hack OS! -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message