Re: Free VPN

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Author: Kurt Granroth
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Free VPN
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 01:37 pm, Bill Warner wrote:
> Does nobody use the little pppd over ssh trick? I like it. No need for
> anything other than standard linux tools.
>
> Probably very limited compared to real vpn solutions, but it works great
> if you just need a quick easy access to a network.


It is a nice little hack. I'm doing something similar right now by tunneling
through SSH to access a remote NX session. I am not doing the full-on PPP
over SSH because of this:

Why TCP Over TCP Is A Bad Idea
http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html

If the URL looks familiar to anybody, it's because he's the original author of
CIPE. Apparently he starting writing CIPE in the first place because he
thinks the PPP over SSH hack is a Very Bad Idea.
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