Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 00:59:12 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Tisdell <mike@netronix.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VPN question (using ppp and ssh) Message-ID: <199907082359.AAA64867@dev.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jul 1999 12:51:37 PDT." <4.1.19990708123747.018dfcb0@shuttle.netronix.com>
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> I have setup a VPN using ppp and ssh, using the device !/etc/ppp/secure
> in the ppp.conf. Amost the same as that provided in the ppp.conf.sample in
> 2.2.8. I want to use the VPN in the -auto mode because the vpn session is
> routed over a standard on demand ppp connection to an ISP. The problem that
> I am having is that when anything (including the idle timer) causes the
> link to come down and ssh terminates, ppp also terminates with a discripter
> 0 error.
>
> I have tried listing multiple instances of !/etc/ppp/secure in the device
> statement in ppp.conf hoping that when ppp sees the failed device it would
> try the next, but it doesn't. It appears that when ssh terminates and
> closes stdin/stdout it causes a fatal error that ppp cannot recover from.
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this?
The latest version of ppp handles this sort of error like carrier
loss on a tty :-)
> mike@netronix.com
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