PPP help

[MonMotha]

You didn't read did you :)  It's not the overhead, it's that layering 
TCPs isn't a good idea.  They'll both try to retry if somethign goes 
wrong, at different rates, creating a backlog,...  Read the URL, some 
good info there.  As it is, if I can get vtund working over UDP I'll be 
happy.

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:

> 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be outdated (I saw one referring to kernel 1.2), or specifically running 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.)
> 
> 
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