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Cc: Rob Zietlow <Rob@the-rob.com>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: pppd pty equivilent in FBSD
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Tim Pushor wrote:

> Rob, I had a cursory look through your scripts, and seems like you 
> handle most of the logic. I don't know anything about pppd for Linux 
> (is it based on the same code?). I let pppd manage retries & setting 
> routes. It will also drop and dry to reconnect if either side can't 
> talk to the other (via lqr).
>
> It looks simple, but with rsa only authentication on the sshd, it has 
> proven to be solid and reasonably secure.


I think there may be a possibility that you could use mpd. it has a lot 
of flexibility about what it can tunnel over.
even more if yuo include the ability to use netgraph as a tunnelling 
front end which makes teh options almost unlimitted.