Subject: Re: Userspace PPP
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/09/2000 12:28:48
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 04:22:53PM -0400, Sean Murphy wrote:

 > The only problem with that is that most VPN packages use GRE and/or UDP
 > for these tunnels.  This is the whole reason I need a tunnel to an
 > external network.  I need to be able to have a route upon which I run all
 > my software which needs GRE and or UDP packets to connect/communicate
 > (ICQ, for one).  If I could tunnel out to my home system, I could run my
 > ICQ through the proxy server on that system.  All GRE and UDP stuff
 > (incoming and outgoing) is discarded at our firewall.

pkgsrc/security/ssh-ip-tunnel ... this uses TCP, obviously :-)

It appears that it does use pty-redir, tho, which you claimed you
wanted to avoid.

One of these days I'll write the if_tcp.c I've been thinking about
for all these years...

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>