Dear Kevin or any linux users: in my peer/dsl-provider pty ....... it also have similar situation, but I really did not know why my pppoe keep not work that is in 2.4.20 kernel of 686 from unstable
if I swtch back to old kernel image for boot 2.218, then my internet through pppoe work I find the difference of lsmod in 2.4.20 it have ppp_async, ppp_generic which 2.2.18 do not have but 2.2.18 have ppp_deflate and bsd_comp, and ppp which 2.4.20 do not have hope to your or any advancer's help sincere Eric ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Buhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucas Nussbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 1:18 AM Subject: Re: Special case of VPN : how can I do this ? > Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I'd like to setup a VPN between my own computer and a computer in my > > university, on which, of course, I don't have root access. > > You could look at the "slirp" package. The "slirp" server runs with > normal user privileges on the remote machine and mimics a PPP server > for the benefit of a "pppd" daemon running on the local machine. > > The usual way of setting it up would be to give your "pppd" an > appropriate "pty" configuration line to automagically SSH to the > remote machine and launch "slirp" through the resulting connection. > My guess for the right "pty" line is: > > pty "ssh -t -e none remotehost slirp ppp" > > Because "slirp" only runs as a normal user process, there are limits > to what it can do, of course, but for web browsing it will probably > work quite nicely. > > Be careful of your routing, too. Add an explicit route for the remote > Solaris machine through your "real" network interface before changing > your default route to the new tunnel interface (or letting PPP do it). > Otherwise, the first packet you send will be tunnelled back through > the tunnel in an infinite loop. Oops. > > Googling for "ssh slirp tunnel" might help. > > -- > Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]