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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 17:44:47 -0800
From: J Sloan <jjs@lexus.com>
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To: Chris Dukes <pakrat@www.uk.linux.org>
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Subject: Re: PPP over socket?
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Just my $.02 -

vtund rocks, I learned about it when
I took on a side job doing linux/vpn
admin for a medium size company.

vtund connects their branch offices
to their main office - it encrypts and
compresses traffic between the vpn
boxes at each end, which in our case
are iptables firewall boxes.

I am impressed with it  - as mentioned
it's user space and works with linux,
bsd or solaris....

cu

jjs

Chris Dukes wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 10:13:57AM +0100, fabrizio.gennari@philips.com wrote:
>
>>I was wondering whether the socket architecture could be modified in order 
>>to support PPP connections over a generic socket (of type SOCK_DGRAM or 
>>SOCK_SEQPACKET), by mapping each PPP packet to a socket packet. This idea 
>>is not completely new: somebody raised is in the past, see for example 
>>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg00180.html or 
>>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg01127.html .
>>
>
>vtun already provides this capability in user space.
>(See http://vtun.sourceforge.net/)
>ppp(8) on *BSD also provides this capability in user space as well.
>
>As memory serves PPPoE on Linux is partially implemented in userspace
>as is, so a partial user space solution for PPPoUDP shouldn't be that
>wretched.
>


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