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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Rich Morin wrote:

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> The client suggests that I set up my FreeBSD box to run pppd over ssh,
> achieving a VPN connection, then let the server act as a router for my


  That won't likely work too well.  When packets are dropped, recovery can
occur at the ssh TCP level, and the TCP session encapsulated in ssh.

  Try IPSec, which is at least a standard, or ptptp, as supported by mpd.

Tom



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