From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 16 3: 8: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awfulhak.org (dynamic-49.max1-du-ws.dialnetwork.pavilion.co.uk [212.74.8.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE18D14C93 for ; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 03:08:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA03790; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:55:33 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01545; Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:57:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910160957.KAA01545@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: mayd@cygnus.uwa.edu.au Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ppp across ssh (vpn) In-Reply-To: Message from "David May, Powered by FreeBSD 2.2.6, somewhere in the Outback" of "Sat, 16 Oct 1999 11:14:16 +0800." <199910160314.LAA03453@chrysanthemum.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:57:08 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Sorry I cannot help but I have been trying to do exactly the > same thing for months with the same results as you reported. > I have read a couple of other similar posts reporting problems. > > Brian Somers, maintainer of user PPP, offered some suggestions > to me via email to no avail. It still fails in exactly the same > way. > > I would like to know once and for all: has ANYBODY got this > working? If it is not possible then I need to find another > solution. (I read somewhere Linux supports an SSH based VPN > over PPP but I have not got any details yet.) As I have said, I use it *every working day*. I've heard reports that it won't work on FreeBSD 2.2.8 or less where the same config works after an upgrade to 3. > -- > David May | mailto:mayd@cygnus.uwa.edu.au | Finger for > | finger:mayd@cygnus.uwa.edu.au | PGP Public Key > | http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~mayd | > > ``We are so used to thinking in terms of the `progress' of science that > it is hard for us to remember that certain matters were better understood > one hundred years ago.'' > Robert Hermann, in introduction to > Felix Klein, Development of Mathematics in the 19th Century. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message