Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 08:50:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Behrens <matt@megaweapon.zigg.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security & ppp tunneling Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608083031.367B-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <199806071552.QAA12320@awfulhak.org>
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Brian, you're great. You have definitely made ppp a world-class piece of software (and helped *BSD a great deal in the process). While I'm at it, I came across a feature I think would be really neat: the ability to have ppp not fork (i.e. -nofork or some such). That would make some sort of loop script possible. While I've never seen ppp SIGSEGV yet, that would be nice -- in addition to insulating it from people like me who like to type "killall ppp" when only one is not working. :) Or, doing a kill on ppp to reset a connection. Maybe this feature is already in and I'm just not seeing it. :) Quite possible. Anyway, thanks again! On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Brian Somers wrote: > > I recently discovered ppp's ability to use a network socket as a device. > > Pretty cool, quick, and dirty. :) > > > > I'm wondering, is there any way (easy or otherwise) to encrypt said > > traffic? I may resort to using skip but I'd like easier options if > > possible. :) Thanks! > > With the latest ppp (http://www.Awfulhak.org/ppp.html) you can > specify a program with a ``!'' prefix as the device. This program > can do whatever it takes to get another ppp talking to stdin.... > > > Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> | http://www.zigg.com/ > > Network Operations, The Iserv Company | Proudly running FreeBSD; sworn > > MIS, Michigan Kenworth, Inc. | enemy of Linux, a free hack OS > > Chanop Script Coordinator, WWFIN | and Windows, a non-free hack OS! > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... > > > Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> | http://www.zigg.com/ Network Operations, The Iserv Company | Proudly running FreeBSD; sworn MIS, Michigan Kenworth, Inc. | enemy of Linux, a free hack OS Chanop Script Coordinator, WWFIN | and Windows, a non-free hack OS! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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