From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jan 13 9:51:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE3D15587; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:51:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 583C51C2B; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539F23819; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:49:13 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: Stan Brown , stable@freebsd.org, brian@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IP Tunneling, is it possible? In-Reply-To: <200001131415.JAA05663@rtfm.newton> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > I love my PPP over SSH connection. Basicly, ppp on one machine invokes > ssh to login to the other side and start ``ppp -direct'' there. Once the > connection is up, both ends can route packets to/from the newly created > tun-interfaces enabling other machines on the LANs to see it all. ppp+ssh has some flaws to it. Performance can be choppy and the reason (If I'm pulling out of my memory banks what Brian told me at FreeBSDcon properly) is that there are so many layer, each with its own error correction, compression, etc that wierd bursts and such can happen. > This works perfect to get a normal connection through a one-way firewall > too, BTW. Which is the only reason I use it. An example of the wierdness. if I do a 'ls -l' in a large directory a certain amount of files will be displayed and then display will stop if I lay on the space bar, they'll start moving again. This is not a $PAGER issue (before anyone sends me the man page from more(1)), I believe it is a queueing bogon when you use so many layers. HTH, -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message