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[.....]
> So far, so good, everything works fine. Now I need to connect the offsite
> hosts via an ip tunnel to the main location. The offsite has to start
> the tunnel, as it has a dynamic address on the public. I tried several
> things with ppp, iptunnel (2 different ones) and ssh, but all are not stable
> nor user friendly.

The latest ppp (-current, -stable and http://www.FreeBSD.org/~brian) 
has a full working example of a tunnel setup in the PPP OVER TCP 
section of the man page.  There's also an example in ppp.conf.sample.

> Has anyone come up with something simular ? Any pointers ?
> 
> Ulf.
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