ppp over ssh?
John Fulmer
John.Fulmer at LEVEL3.COM
Mon Sep 11 18:27:55 EDT 2000
Sandy Harris wrote:
>
> Andrew Chen wrote:
> > Is there anything flawed in my idea? If not, is performance the only
> > reason why not everyone is using this as their VPN solution?
>
> Interoperability is one other. IPSEC is available for everything from
> routers to IBM mainframes.
Robustness is another. Without a certain amount of work, ppp via ssh (or
ssl) has no easy way to reestablish itself if an excessive amount of
packets are dropped, and the connection is broken.
It's probably doable, just not real easy.
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