PPP help

[Warren Togami]

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 18:41, MonMotha wrote:
> Well, I'm looking at the Universal TUN/TAP driver now, but PPP over 
> somethign is still an option.  I don't need any encryption, (in fact I'd 
> rather not add the overhead of it, my peer is only 128kbit), and there's 
> also some problems associated with runnning TCP over TCP (retry 
> algorithms don't like it). See 
> http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html for info on that 
> one; this is why I was looking at UDP.  All the docs I can find seem to 
> be outdated (I saw one referring to kernel 1.2), or specifically running 
> ppp over SSH (which I don't want to do for the reasons above)...the 
> Universal TUN/TAP looks promising right now, but ppp is still certainly 
> an option.
> 
> --MonMotha

If you're worried about added overhead with SSH, there's a single line
code change that you can do to OpenSSH that will allow the "none" cypher
on the server side.  (The client side should already be able to ask for
it.)