Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 13:51:25 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: gerald@manhattanprojects.com (Gerald Abshez) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN's: PPP, SSH et al... Message-ID: <199809031251.NAA04866@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: <35E48D74.B884C9CF@smtp.manhattanprojects.com>
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm trying to get a VPN going with SSH and PPP. I'm trying to use
> userland PPP, and am having
> a few problems with it. I'm not a PPP expert, and I can't really tell
> what it's supposed to do. What
> I think I'm aiming for is a PPP over the IP connection; however,
> I can't seem to get them to talk
> to each other. Anyone have *any* idea of what I'm talking about?
First, try to get a working tunnel as per the example in
ppp.conf.sample. Assuming you can do that, you should then be able
to do it via ssh with something like:
set device !/etc/ppp/secure-connection
and create /etc/ppp/secure-connection (with execute permissions):
#! /bin/sh
exec </dev/null >&0
exec ssh -f -L 1234:theothermachine:theothermachinesport theothermachine sleep
20
theothermachine is the machine name of the peer, and theothermachinesport is
the port number that you used in /etc/services on the peer to listen for the
incoming ppp connection.
I'm afraid I've never tried this, but it *should* work :-)
> Thanks,
> Gerald
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