From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 05:51:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA05940 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 05:51:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (ip195.grand-rapids.mi.pub-ip.psi.net [38.11.210.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA05927 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 05:51:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@megaweapon.zigg.com) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [192.168.1.1]) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA00391; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:50:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@megaweapon.zigg.com) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens To: Brian Somers cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security & ppp tunneling In-Reply-To: <199806071552.QAA12320@awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian, you're great. You have definitely made ppp a world-class piece of software (and helped *BSD a great deal in the process). While I'm at it, I came across a feature I think would be really neat: the ability to have ppp not fork (i.e. -nofork or some such). That would make some sort of loop script possible. While I've never seen ppp SIGSEGV yet, that would be nice -- in addition to insulating it from people like me who like to type "killall ppp" when only one is not working. :) Or, doing a kill on ppp to reset a connection. Maybe this feature is already in and I'm just not seeing it. :) Quite possible. Anyway, thanks again! On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > I recently discovered ppp's ability to use a network socket as a device. > > Pretty cool, quick, and dirty. :) > > > > I'm wondering, is there any way (easy or otherwise) to encrypt said > > traffic? I may resort to using skip but I'd like easier options if > > possible. :) Thanks! > > With the latest ppp (http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html) you can > specify a program with a ``!'' prefix as the device. This program > can do whatever it takes to get another ppp talking to stdin.... > > > Matt Behrens | http://www.zigg.com/ > > Network Operations, The Iserv Company | Proudly running FreeBSD; sworn > > MIS, Michigan Kenworth, Inc. | enemy of Linux, a free hack OS > > Chanop Script Coordinator, WWFIN | and Windows, a non-free hack OS! > > -- > Brian , , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > Matt Behrens | http://www.zigg.com/ Network Operations, The Iserv Company | Proudly running FreeBSD; sworn MIS, Michigan Kenworth, Inc. | enemy of Linux, a free hack OS Chanop Script Coordinator, WWFIN | and Windows, a non-free hack OS! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message